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BNC: 44596 COCA: 29959

madwoman

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madwoman /ˈmædˌwʊmən/ noun
plural madwomen /-ˌwɪmən/ /ˈmædˌwɪmən/
madwoman
/ˈmædˌwʊmən/
noun
plural madwomen /-ˌwɪmən/ /ˈmædˌwɪmən/
Learner's definition of MADWOMAN
[count]
: a woman who has severe mental illness : an insane woman精神失常的女人;疯女人
informal : a woman who acts in a wild and uncontrolled way鲁莽的女人;疯狂的女人
BNC: 44596 COCA: 29959

madwoman

noun

mad·​wom·​an ˈmad-ˌwu̇-mən How to pronounce madwoman (audio)
: a woman who is or acts as if insane

Example Sentences

She is a madwoman on the dance floor.
Recent Examples on the Web Bapu refers to herself as a madwoman or a lunatic more than a dozen times in her journals, but only sometimes with despair. Jordan Kisner, The Atlantic, 13 Sep. 2022 Faye Dunaway plays screen legend Joan Crawford as a wire hanger-wielding madwoman in this campy 1981 bio-drama based on the scandalous tell-all by Crawford’s adopted daughter Christina. Los Angeles Times, 5 May 2022 To its credit, Better Angels also manages to redeem Mary Todd Lincoln from her too-common caricature as a grieving madwoman. Christian Holub, EW.com, 9 Dec. 2021 The occasion is Quentin Bell’s biography of Woolf, the personal, family provenance of which, Ozick says, has reduced Woolf to the madwoman of the family. Cathleen Schine, The New York Review of Books, 16 Mar. 2021 But no one takes Maud seriously—just as no one believed the local madwoman ( Cara Kelly ) who haunted their village back in 1949, and who seemed to know how and why—and with whom—Sukey had vanished. John Anderson, WSJ, 30 Dec. 2020 After Biden announced his pick, Trump called Harris nasty, angry and a madwoman. Maureen Groppe, USA TODAY, 19 Aug. 2020 One acquaintance of Vitória’s, Antoinette, is named after Jean Rhys’s reinvention of Charlotte Brontë’s madwoman in the attic in Wide Sargasso Sea. Lidija Haas, Harper's magazine, 20 Jan. 2020 She is alternately hailed as a moral genius and dismissed as a madwoman. Elizabeth Winkler, WSJ, 12 July 2019 See More

Word History

First Known Use

15th century, in the meaning defined above

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The first known use of madwoman was in the 15th century
BNC: 44596 COCA: 29959

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