maddie

nouncommon in dialogue

A mad person.

noun

1
rareA 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 really incompetent to dilate upon the theme.
[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 […]
[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.
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.

Etymology

From mad + -ie.

Forms

plural: maddies

Madame · A title equivalent to Mrs. or Ms., used for French-speaking…madden · To make angry.Madden · A surname from Irish.

maddie · A mad person.

Maddie · A diminutive of the female given name Madeleine.Maddox · A surname from Welsh [in turn originating as a patronymic].Maddy · A diminutive of the female given name Madeleine.

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