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madwoman

/mad-woom-uhn/US // ˈmædˌwʊm ən //UK // (ˈmædwʊmən) //

疯婆子,疯女人,疯婆娘,疯狂的女人

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1

    plural mad·wom·en.

    • : a woman who is or behaves as if insane.

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Examples

  • Remember when “the madwoman in the attic” was more than just a metaphor for the female imagination?

  • Remember when it signified an actual ... “madwoman”, in an actual ... “attic”?

  • But why do voters in the sixth district of Minnesota want to be represented by a madwoman?

  • I heard you calling for Lora before I met you—speak, tell me if she also is wandering out here like a madwoman, and why?

  • Then, with her hair streaming down her back, she ran about wailing like a madwoman in front of all the portraits of the General.

  • He rose too and leaned against the trunk of a tree, while she stormed and raved like a madwoman for some minutes in front of him.

  • Inside, there was an expanse of yellow pebbles, sulphur-coloured, like those which the madwoman had carried in her bag.

  • Would she come right, kiss, and make friends, and call herself a madwoman—a reckless fool—as she'd often done before?