"maddog" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1880, The Louisville Medical News: A Weekly Journal of Medicine and Surgery",
          "text": "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.",
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          "ref": "1914, Charles Roy Vance, A Book of Letters: Being a Few Sparks Thrown Off in Idle Moments",
          "text": "Sam Bluegum was bitten by a maddog some days ago.",
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        {
          "ref": "1992, Lewis Nordan, Music of the Swamp, page 43",
          "text": "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.",
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        "Alternative form of mad dog",
        "A rabid dog"
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          "ref": "1949, American Flint - Volume 38, page 5",
          "text": "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.",
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        {
          "ref": "1967, Jerome Charyn, Going to Jerusalem: a novel, page 149",
          "text": "As a German, you must remember how the Jewish maddogs took over Berlin.",
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        {
          "ref": "1978, Sasha Newborn, First-person intense anthology, page 146",
          "text": "Hijackers and other maddogs often claim higher motives; they did it for the good of the world, they did it for their children.",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "1999, Reynolds Price, Roxanna Slade: A Novel, page 182",
          "text": "Either armed black men were coming to kill you, or white maddogs were tearing black children to ragged bits.",
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        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Alternative form of mad dog",
        "A ferocious fanatic"
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          "ref": "1880, The Louisville Medical News: A Weekly Journal of Medicine and Surgery",
          "text": "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.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
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          "text": "Sam Bluegum was bitten by a maddog some days ago.",
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        },
        {
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        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Alternative form of mad dog",
        "A rabid dog"
      ],
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        {
          "ref": "1949, American Flint - Volume 38, page 5",
          "text": "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.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
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          "ref": "1967, Jerome Charyn, Going to Jerusalem: a novel, page 149",
          "text": "As a German, you must remember how the Jewish maddogs took over Berlin.",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "1978, Sasha Newborn, First-person intense anthology, page 146",
          "text": "Hijackers and other maddogs often claim higher motives; they did it for the good of the world, they did it for their children.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1999, Reynolds Price, Roxanna Slade: A Novel, page 182",
          "text": "Either armed black men were coming to kill you, or white maddogs were tearing black children to ragged bits.",
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        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Alternative form of mad dog",
        "A ferocious fanatic"
      ],
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