maddie

plural maddies

1. colloquialrareA mad person.

   Let the maddies kill each other off - only keep it local and don't export it to other countries.

   2002 April 25, Don H, “Palestinian State”, in alt.politics.economics (Usenet)

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   ‘I don’t mean,’ […] ‘that you have been non compos, and were locked up, you know; but the information I desire to elicit is whether you have been among the maddies over the water.’ […] my visitor cut me short in a somewhat unceremonious manner by assuring me that until I had seen the maddies I was really incompetent to dilate upon the theme.

   1868 November, an Outsider [pseudonym], “Inside Bedlam”, in Tinsleys’ Magazine, volume III, London: Tinsley Brothers, →OCLC, page 456, column 2

   [T]hey put me in security with bars on the windows—where they put the real maddies and the ‘bad’ patients […] I looked out on a courtyard where all the maddies and morons walked about tearing off their clothes and eating their own shit […]

   1974, Frank Moorhouse, “The St Louis Rotary Convention 1923, Recalled”, in The Electrical Experience: A Discontinuous Narrative, Sydney, N.S.W.: Angus and Robertson, →ISBN, pages 138–139

   [W]hen we children had occasion to pass their gateway we would run, and tell each other that the maddies had come to catch us.

   1979 April 9, Edna O’Brien, “Ghosts”, in The New Yorker, volume LV, number 8, New York, N.Y.: Condé Nast Publications, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 14 Apr 2026, page 38, column 2

   At a track day there are just so many factors in your favour, that serious fanging on the public road just has to be for the maddies.

   1999 February 8, CrazyCam Manson, “Putty Rd bike down?”, in aus.motorcycles (Usenet)

   Politicians have sometimes been divided into the "maddies" and the "baddies". The ["]maddies" being the ideologically motivated and the "baddies" being the self seekers. History seems to indicate that in temrs^([sic]) of causing human misery, the "maddies" are ahead thus far.

   1999 December 8, Arthur, “That pay rise”, in aus.politics (Usenet)

alternative Maddy · alternative Maddi · alternative Madi · alternative Mady · alternative Madie

1. A diminutive of the female given name Madeleine.
2. A diminutive of the unisex given name Madison.