Dictionary

madwoman en · NOUN

Etymology

Etymology tree English mad Proto-Germanic *wībą Proto-West Germanic *wīb Old English wīf Proto-Indo-European *mon- Proto-Germanic *mann- Proto-West Germanic *mann Old English mann Old English wīfmann Middle English woman Middle English -woman English -woman English madwoman From mad + -woman.

Meanings

1. A woman who is insane or mentally disturbed.
   • A madwoman with cropped hair and staring eyes stumbled into the column just ahead of our party, shouted words no one could understand, and fled among the trees. 1983, Gene Wolfe, chapter XXVIII, in The Citadel of the Autarch (The Book of the New Sun; 4), New York: Timescape, →ISBN, page 232:
   • but there seemed to be no reality in the whole scene except poor little Miss Flite, the madwoman, standing on a bench and nodding at it. 1852 March – 1853 September, Charles Dickens, Bleak House, London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1853, →OCLC:

Forms

Translations (24)

pt louca (a woman who is insane) · cs šílená žena (a woman who is insane) · nl gekkin (a woman who is insane) · pl oszołomka (a woman who is insane) · de Wahnsinnige (a woman who is insane) · nl zottin (a woman who is insane) · pt doida (a woman who is insane) · nrf folle (a woman who is insane) · it matta (a woman who is insane) · pl szajbuska (a woman who is insane) · ru сумасше́дшая (a woman who is insane) · mfe fol (a woman who is insane) · fr folle (a woman who is insane) · de Verrückte (a woman who is insane) · de Irre (a woman who is insane) · pl psycholka (a woman who is insane) · es loca (a woman who is insane) · it pazza (a woman who is insane) · ru безу́мная (a woman who is insane) · te వెర్రిది (a woman who is insane) · ota دلی (a woman who is insane) · pt maluca (a woman who is insane) · pl wariatka (a woman who is insane) · pl świruska (a woman who is insane)