Meaning of maddog | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A rabid dog
2. A ferocious fanatic

Examples

“These mad-stones are in our days principally used as a supposed infallible remedy for the bite⟳ of maddogs, and naturally every application of such a stone to a dog-bite, even if the latter would have⟳ been of itself harmless, is scored as an additional victory for the stone.”

“Sam Bluegum was bitten by a maddog some days ago.”

“I told Roy Dale and John Wesley the story of the day when I was five years old and a warning about a maddog went out through the neighborhoods.”

“For Unionism is Americanism ; it is the voice of America's millions of workers who showed the maddogs of the axis that the freedom of man is strong, powerful, and will never perish from the earth.”

“As a German, you must remember⟳ how the Jewish maddogs took over Berlin.”

“Hijackers and other maddogs often claim⟳ higher motives; they did it for the good of the world, they did it for their children.”

“Either armed black men were coming to kill⟳ you, or white maddogs were tearing black children to ragged bits.”

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