madchild

M3A1D2C3H4I1L1D2

noun

A child who is insane.

Scrabble 17

Meanings

nounmadchild (plural madchildren)

plural madchildren

  1. A child who is insane.

    Sitting on the bed surveying the damage, she begins to notice some order to the chaos. Perhaps this is not the act of a madman (or madchild) after all.

    1994, Murray Krantz, Child Development: Risk and Opportunity, →ISBN, page 297
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    The madhouse went down to the beach today - madmen, madwomen, madchildren - not to bathe, though the weather was perfect for bathing, but to welcome outcasts of every description from lands overseas.

    2000, Gad Hollander, Walserian waltzes, →ISBN, page 25

    I felt an unusual detachment, an almost agnostic attitude toward the contest of giants that would turn New Orleans's Superdome into a vast asylum for madmen, madwomen and even madchildren.

    2012, H. Brandt Ayers, The 2013 BCS National Championship, →ISBN

Origin

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