单词 | madwoman |
释义 | madwomann. A woman who is insane. More generally (also hyperbolically): a woman who behaves like a lunatic, a wildly foolish woman. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > mental health > mental illness > mentally ill person > [noun] > mad person woodman1297 madmanc1330 lunatic1377 franticc1380 madwomana1438 March harec1500 Bedlam beggar1525 fanaticc1525 bedlama1529 frenetic1528 Jack o' Bedlam1528 Tom o' Bedlam1569 crack-brain1570 madbrain1570 Tom1575 madcap1589 gelt1596 madhead1600 brainsick1605 madpash1611 non compos1628 madling1638 bedlam-man1658 bedlamerc1675 fan1682 bedlamite1691 cracka1701 lymphatic1708 shatter-brain1719 mad1729 maniaca1763 non compos mentis1765 shatter-pate1775 shatter-wit1775 insane1786 craze1831 dement1857 crazy1867 crackpot1883 loony1884 bug1885 psychopath1885 dingbat1887 psychopathic1890 ding-a-ling1899 meshuggener1900 détraqué1902 maddiea1903 nut1908 mental1913 ding1929 lakes1934 wack1938 fruitcake1942 nutty1942 barm-pot1951 nutcake1953 nutter1958 nutcase1959 nut job1959 meshuga1962 nutsy1964 headcase1965 nutball1968 headbanger1973 nutso1975 wacko1977 nut bar1978 mentalist1990 a1438 Bk. Margery Kempe (1940) i. 193 (MED) Þan þe creatur thowt þat sche ran al abowte þe place, as it had ben a mad woman, crying & roryng. a1470 T. Malory Morte Darthur (Winch. Coll. 13) (1990) II. 805 So the quene was nyghe oute of her wytte..and waltred as a madde woman. c1520 tr. Terence Andria i. i, in Terens in Eng. sig. Av In to the fyre than put she was Thys forseyd syster being in the place ffolyshly and lyke a mad woman All perelowsly in to the fyre ran. 1600 W. Shakespeare Merchant of Venice iv. i. 442 And if your wife be not a mad woman. 1622 T. Scott Belgicke Pismire 15 I remember a witty mad-woman..told a friend of hers [etc.]. a1668 W. Davenant Law against Lovers iii. i That were a sudden change, and would shew More of the Moon in him, than is in a mad-woman. 1742 H. Fielding Miss Lucy in Town 37 And is this bepowder'd, becurl'd, be-hoop'd Madwoman my Daughter? 1842 C. Dickens Amer. Notes I. iii. 108 The rest of the madwomen seemed to understand the joke perfectly. 1845 M. Fuller Woman in 19th Cent. 93 She..will not be pitied, as a madwoman, nor shrunk from as unnatural. 1921 L. Tetrazzini My Life of Song xix. 316 In the mad scene in Lucia, the use of the ‘white voice’ suggests the babbling of the mad woman. 1970 R. Davies Fifth Business iv. iii. 196 Your one human responsibility is a madwoman about whom you cherish a maggoty-headed delusion. 1993 Gnosis Winter 50/1 There were two years when she was a complete madwoman. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2000; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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