maddie
/ˈmædi/
maddie noun: a mad person.
Noun
maddie (plural maddies)
- A mad person.
- ‘I don’t mean,’ […] ‘that you have been non compos, and were locked up, you know; but the information I desire to elicit is whether you have been among the maddies over the water.’ […] my visitor cut me short in a somewhat unceremonious manner by assuring me that until I had seen the maddies I was...1868 November, an Outsider [pseudonym], “Inside Bedlam”, in Tinsleys’ Magazine, volume III, London: Tinsley Brothers, →OCLC, page 456, column 2
- [T]hey put me in security with bars on the windows—where they put the real maddies and the ‘bad’ patients […] I looked out on a courtyard where all the maddies and morons walked about tearing off their clothes and eating their own shit […]1974, Frank Moorhouse, “The St Louis Rotary Convention 1923, Recalled”, in The Electrical Experience: A Discontinuous Narrative, Sydney, N.S.W.: Angus and Robertson, →ISBN, pages 138–139
Proper noun capitalized: Maddie
Maddie
- A diminutive of the female given name Madeleine.
- A diminutive of the unisex given name Madison.
Examples of maddie in a sentence
- [W]hen we children had occasion to pass their gateway we would run, and tell each other that the maddies had come to catch us.1979 April 9, Edna O’Brien, “Ghosts”, in The New Yorker, volume LV, number 8, New York, N.Y.: Condé Nast Publications, →ISSN, →OCLC...
- At a track day there are just so many factors in your favour, that serious fanging on the public road just has to be for the maddies.1999 February 8, CrazyCam Manson, “Putty Rd bike down?”, in aus.motorcycles (Usenet):
- Politicians have sometimes been divided into the "maddies" and the "baddies".1999 December 8, Arthur, “That pay rise”, in aus.politics (Usenet):
- Let the maddies kill each other off - only keep it local and don't export it to other countries.2002 April 25, Don H, “Palestinian State”, in alt.politics.economics (Usenet):
Forms of maddie
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | maddies |
| Proper noun | |
| alternative form | Maddy |
| alternative form | Maddi |
| alternative form | Madi |
| alternative form | Mady |
| alternative form | Madie |
Origin of maddie
From mad + -ie.
Clipping + -ie.
Questions about maddie
- What does maddie mean?
- Maddie means a mad person.
- How do you use maddie in a sentence?
- [W]hen we children had occasion to pass their gateway we would run, and tell each other that the maddies had come to catch us.
- What part of speech is maddie?
- Maddie can be a noun or a proper noun.
- How do you pronounce maddie?
- Maddie is pronounced /ˈmædi/.
- What is the plural of maddie?
- The plural of maddie is maddies.
Words near maddie in the dictionary
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