madmann.
/ˈmadmən/, U.S. /ˈmædˌmæn/, /ˈmædmən/ A man who is insane; a lunatic. Also more generally (also hyperbolically): a person who behaves like a lunatic, a wildly foolish person.
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c1330 in C. Brown Relig. Lyrics 14th Cent. (1924) 34 (MED) For al þe craft þat þou can..Þe mock & þe mad man No schul þai neuer mete.
c1400 (c1378) W. Langland Piers Plowman (Laud 581) (1869) B. ix. 69 Faderelees children; And wydwes,..Madde men and maydenes þat helplees were.
c1515 Ld. Berners tr. Bk. Duke Huon of Burdeux (1882–7) xxiii. 68 He wyll come after vs lyke a madd man.
1572 (a1500) Taill of Rauf Coilȝear (1882) 443 I am bot ane mad man.
1592 (?a1425) Chester Plays (BL Add.) (1847) II. 168 Madmen, maddmen, leeve on me, That am on god, so is not he.
1611 Bible (King James) 1 Sam. xxi. 15 Haue I need of mad-men, that ye haue brought this fellow to play the mad-man in my presence? View more context for this quotation
a1616 W. Shakespeare Twelfth Night (1623) i. v. 103 Fetch him off I pray you, he speakes nothing but madman . View more context for this quotation
1674 A. Marvell Let. 5 Nov. in Poems & Lett. (1971) II. 331 Carleton the B: of Bristow hath playd the madman in that City.
1796 J. Morse Amer. Universal Geogr. (new ed.) I. 547 This hospital is the general receptacle of lunatics and madmen.
1810 W. Scott Lady of Lake ii. 90 Madmen, forbear your frantic jar!
1843 A. Bethune Sc. Peasant's Fire-side 75 I have been a madman and a fool.
1885 Manch. Examiner 16 May 5/1 Policemen who find a half-naked madman howling at midnight.
1917 E. R. Burroughs Princess of Mars xviii. 208 So, with the cunning of a madman, I backed into the far corner of my cell.
1935 H. A. L. Fisher Hist. Europe I. xii. 140 Mecca was sharply critical. Was he a madman, an imposter, a poet?
1964 V. Nabokov Defence x. 162 The passionate chess player is just as ridiculous as the madman inventing a perpetuum mobile.
1988 Toronto Sun 13 Apr. 10/1 The civilized world must unite on this, because nothing will stop the madmen until it does.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2000; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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