madperson

English

Etymology

From mad +‎ person.

Noun

madperson (plural madpersons or madpeople)

1. (gender-neutral) A madman or madwoman.
   • 1992, Lawrence Grossberg, We Gotta Get Out of This Place, page 212:

     If they had been produced in the 1950s, the producers of such cultural texts (as well as those who consume them) would certainly have been judged either madpersons or geniuses.

   • 2000, Patrick Colm Hogan, Philosophical Approaches to the Study of Literature, page 182:

     Specifically, it was during the Classical period that madpersons and criminals came to be confined in large numbers — in a sense, analyzed out of society at large, organized into prisons (as knowledge is organized into tables) […]

Anagrams

• pomanders, name-drops, name drops, namedrops