madwoman

English

Etymology

mad +‎ -woman

Noun

madwoman (plural madwomen)

1. A woman who is insane.
   • 1852 March – 1853 September, Charles Dickens, Bleak House, London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1853, →OCLC:

     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.

   • 1983, Gene Wolfe, chapter XXVIII, in The Citadel of the Autarch (The Book of the New Sun; 4), New York: Timescape, →ISBN, page 232:

     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.

Translations

a woman who is insane

• Czech: šílená žena f
• Dutch: gekkin (nl) f, zottin (nl) f
• French: folle (fr) f
• German: Irre (de) f, Wahnsinnige (de) f, Verrückte (de) f
• Italian: matta (it) f, pazza (it) f
• Norman: folle f
• Polish: nienormalna f, szajbuska (pl) f, wariatka (pl) f
• Portuguese: doida (pt) f, louca (pt) f, maluca (pt) f
• Russian: безу́мная (ru) f (bezúmnaja), сумасше́дшая (ru) f (sumasšédšaja)
• Spanish: loca (es) f
• Telugu: వెర్రిది (verridi)