maddie
/ˈmædi/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.25 in modern English
10
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
2
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
name
A diminutive of the female given name Madeleine.
name
A diminutive of the unisex given name Madison.
Example Sentences
- "‘I don’t mean,’ […] ‘that you have been non compos, and were locked up, you know; but the information I desire to elicit is whether you have been among the maddies over the water.’ […] my visitor cut me short in a somewhat unceremonious manner by assuring me that until I had seen the maddies I was really incompetent to dilate upon the theme."
- "[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 […]"
- "[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."
- "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."
- "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."
- "Let the maddies kill each other off - only keep it local and don't export it to other countries."
Etymology
Clipping + -ie.
Word Breakdown
Usage
Inflected Forms
Maddy (alternative)
Maddi (alternative)
Madi (alternative)
Mady (alternative)
Madie (alternative)
maddies (plural)