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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