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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun A man who is or seems to be mentally ill.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A man who is insane; a distracted man; a lunatic; a crazy person.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun A man who is mad; lunatic; a crazy person.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun A male who is insane or mentally disturbed.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun an insane person

Etymologies

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mad +‎ -man

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