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MADWOMAN
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Dictionary entry overview: What does madwoman mean?
• MADWOMAN (noun)
The noun MADWOMAN has 1 sense:
1. a woman lunatic
Familiarity information: MADWOMAN used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A woman lunatic
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Hypernyms ("madwoman" is a kind of...):
Context examples
Her mother, the Creole, was both a madwoman and a drunkard!—as I found out after I had wed the daughter: for they were silent on family secrets before.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
“Now,” she said, “is your pride appeased, you madwoman? Now has he made atonement to you—with his life! Do you hear?—His life!”
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
In the first glimpse we had of them all, and at the moment of our passing from the dark cold night into the warm light room, this was the way in which they were all employed: Mrs. Gummidge in the background, clapping her hands like a madwoman.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
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