maddog
maddog noun: a rabid dog.
Noun
maddog (plural maddogs)
- A rabid dog
- These mad-stones are in our days principally used as a supposed infallible remedy for the bite of maddogs, and naturally every application of such a stone to a dog-bite, even if the latter would have been of itself harmless, is scored as an additional victory for the stone.1880, The Louisville Medical News: A Weekly Journal of Medicine and Surgery
- Sam Bluegum was bitten by a maddog some days ago.1914, Charles Roy Vance, A Book of Letters: Being a Few Sparks Thrown Off in Idle Moments
- A ferocious fanatic
- For Unionism is Americanism ; it is the voice of America's millions of workers who showed the maddogs of the axis that the freedom of man is strong, powerful, and will never perish from the earth.1949, American Flint - Volume 38, page 5
- As a German, you must remember how the Jewish maddogs took over Berlin.1967, Jerome Charyn, Going to Jerusalem: a novel, page 149
Examples of maddog in a sentence
- I told Roy Dale and John Wesley the story of the day when I was five years old and a warning about a maddog went out through the neighborhoods.1992, Lewis Nordan, Music of the Swamp, →ISBN, page 43:
- Hijackers and other maddogs often claim higher motives; they did it for the good of the world, they did it for their children.1978, Sasha Newborn, First-person intense anthology, →ISBN, page 146:
- Either armed black men were coming to kill you, or white maddogs were tearing black children to ragged bits.1999, Reynolds Price, Roxanna Slade: A Novel, →ISBN, page 182:
Forms of maddog
| plural | maddogs |
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Questions about maddog
- What does maddog mean?
- Maddog means a rabid dog.
- How do you use maddog in a sentence?
- I told Roy Dale and John Wesley the story of the day when I was five years old and a warning about a maddog went out through the neighborhoods.
- What part of speech is maddog?
- Maddog is a noun.
- What is the plural of maddog?
- The plural of maddog is maddogs.
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