"mad dog" meaning in All languages combined

See mad dog on Wiktionary

Noun [English]

Forms: mad dogs [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} mad dog (plural mad dogs)
  1. A rabid dog. Synonyms: maddog, mad-dog Derived forms: mad dogs and Englishmen
    Sense id: en-mad_dog-en-noun-pQ6vKCU0
  2. (figuratively, by extension) Someone who is aggressive and fanatical; an aggressor who cannot be reasoned with. Tags: broadly, figuratively
    Sense id: en-mad_dog-en-noun-iQmt8NUp Categories (other): English entries with topic categories using raw markup Disambiguation of English entries with topic categories using raw markup: 9 41 50
  3. (aviation) A McDonnell Douglas MD-80 series aircraft. Categories (topical): Aviation Categories (lifeform): Dogs
    Sense id: en-mad_dog-en-noun-7pdzq3pL Disambiguation of Dogs: 28 21 50 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with topic categories using raw markup, English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 12 32 56 Disambiguation of English entries with topic categories using raw markup: 9 41 50 Disambiguation of English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys: 12 31 56 Topics: aeronautics, aerospace, aviation, business, engineering, natural-sciences, physical-sciences

Inflected forms

Alternative forms

Download JSON data for mad dog meaning in All languages combined (3.8kB)

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "mad dogs",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "mad dog (plural mad dogs)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "derived": [
        {
          "_dis1": "100 0 0",
          "word": "mad dogs and Englishmen"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A rabid dog."
      ],
      "id": "en-mad_dog-en-noun-pQ6vKCU0",
      "links": [
        [
          "rabid",
          "rabid"
        ],
        [
          "dog",
          "dog"
        ]
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "_dis1": "100 0 0",
          "word": "maddog"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "100 0 0",
          "word": "mad-dog"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "9 41 50",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with topic categories using raw markup",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with topic categories using raw markup",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1843, Hernán Cortés, translated by George Folsom, Letters and Dispatches of Cortés",
          "text": "Although the enemy saw that they were being hurt, they were such mad dogs that we could by no means prevent their pursuing us",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1996, Evan Thomas, The Very Best Men: Four Who Dared: The Early Years of the CIA, pages 232–233",
          "text": "But in 1992, Bissell still maintained, \"Lumumba and Sukarno were two of the worst people in public life I've ever heard of. They were mad dogs. Castro I saw not as a mad dog but as a purposeful antagonist. I believed that they were dangerous to the United States. There was a widespread belief that societies in the noncommunist world were exceedingly fragile, susceptible to being destroyed by these demagogues.\"",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2007, Henry Van Dyke, The Valley of Vision, page 96",
          "text": "We went gladly, without fear or holding back. We were resolute that those mad dogs should not get through. 'They shall not pass'! And they did not pass!\" \"Glorious!\" cried the priest, drinking the story in.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2009, Alan Filreis, Counter-revolution of the Word",
          "text": "Even their \"soft tones\" infuriated Bogan: \"Stop the mad dogs of Fascism,\" these young communists mildly offered, \"help our boys dodging Franco's bombs.\"",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Someone who is aggressive and fanatical; an aggressor who cannot be reasoned with."
      ],
      "id": "en-mad_dog-en-noun-iQmt8NUp",
      "links": [
        [
          "aggressive",
          "aggressive"
        ],
        [
          "fanatical",
          "fanatical"
        ],
        [
          "aggressor",
          "aggressor"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(figuratively, by extension) Someone who is aggressive and fanatical; an aggressor who cannot be reasoned with."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "broadly",
        "figuratively"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Aviation",
          "orig": "en:Aviation",
          "parents": [
            "Aeronautics",
            "Transport",
            "Sciences",
            "All topics",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "12 32 56",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "9 41 50",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with topic categories using raw markup",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with topic categories using raw markup",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "12 31 56",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys",
          "parents": [
            "Terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "28 21 50",
          "kind": "lifeform",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Dogs",
          "orig": "en:Dogs",
          "parents": [
            "Canids",
            "Carnivores",
            "Mammals",
            "Vertebrates",
            "Chordates",
            "Animals",
            "Lifeforms",
            "All topics",
            "Life",
            "Fundamental",
            "Nature"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A McDonnell Douglas MD-80 series aircraft."
      ],
      "id": "en-mad_dog-en-noun-7pdzq3pL",
      "links": [
        [
          "aviation",
          "aviation"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(aviation) A McDonnell Douglas MD-80 series aircraft."
      ],
      "topics": [
        "aeronautics",
        "aerospace",
        "aviation",
        "business",
        "engineering",
        "natural-sciences",
        "physical-sciences"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "mad dog"
}
{
  "categories": [
    "English countable nouns",
    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English entries with topic categories using raw markup",
    "English lemmas",
    "English multiword terms",
    "English nouns",
    "English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys",
    "en:Dogs"
  ],
  "derived": [
    {
      "word": "mad dogs and Englishmen"
    }
  ],
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "mad dogs",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "mad dog (plural mad dogs)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "glosses": [
        "A rabid dog."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "rabid",
          "rabid"
        ],
        [
          "dog",
          "dog"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1843, Hernán Cortés, translated by George Folsom, Letters and Dispatches of Cortés",
          "text": "Although the enemy saw that they were being hurt, they were such mad dogs that we could by no means prevent their pursuing us",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1996, Evan Thomas, The Very Best Men: Four Who Dared: The Early Years of the CIA, pages 232–233",
          "text": "But in 1992, Bissell still maintained, \"Lumumba and Sukarno were two of the worst people in public life I've ever heard of. They were mad dogs. Castro I saw not as a mad dog but as a purposeful antagonist. I believed that they were dangerous to the United States. There was a widespread belief that societies in the noncommunist world were exceedingly fragile, susceptible to being destroyed by these demagogues.\"",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2007, Henry Van Dyke, The Valley of Vision, page 96",
          "text": "We went gladly, without fear or holding back. We were resolute that those mad dogs should not get through. 'They shall not pass'! And they did not pass!\" \"Glorious!\" cried the priest, drinking the story in.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2009, Alan Filreis, Counter-revolution of the Word",
          "text": "Even their \"soft tones\" infuriated Bogan: \"Stop the mad dogs of Fascism,\" these young communists mildly offered, \"help our boys dodging Franco's bombs.\"",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Someone who is aggressive and fanatical; an aggressor who cannot be reasoned with."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "aggressive",
          "aggressive"
        ],
        [
          "fanatical",
          "fanatical"
        ],
        [
          "aggressor",
          "aggressor"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(figuratively, by extension) Someone who is aggressive and fanatical; an aggressor who cannot be reasoned with."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "broadly",
        "figuratively"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "en:Aviation"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A McDonnell Douglas MD-80 series aircraft."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "aviation",
          "aviation"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(aviation) A McDonnell Douglas MD-80 series aircraft."
      ],
      "topics": [
        "aeronautics",
        "aerospace",
        "aviation",
        "business",
        "engineering",
        "natural-sciences",
        "physical-sciences"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "maddog"
    },
    {
      "word": "mad-dog"
    }
  ],
  "word": "mad dog"
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable All languages combined dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-04-26 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-04-21 using wiktextract (93a6c53 and 21a9316). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.