name
Maddie
MA-dee
name
1
A diminutive of the female given name Madeleine.
2
A diminutive of the unisex given name Madison.
noun
1
informal A mad person.
"[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 […]"
— Frank Moorhouse (1974)
"[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)
"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)
"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)
Word Forms
maddies plural
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Etymology
Clipping + -ie.