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maddogs

maddogs is the plural of maddog.

Meaning of maddog

Noun

maddog (plural maddogs)

  1. 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
  2. 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

Questions about maddogs

What is maddogs the plural of?
Maddogs is the plural of maddog.

Words near maddogs in the dictionary

  1. maddock
  2. maddocks
  3. maddoctor
  4. maddoctors
  5. maddog
  6. maddogs
  7. Maddow
  8. Maddows
  9. Maddox
  10. Maddoxes
  11. Maddrell

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