mattoid

British

/ ˈmætɔɪd /

noun

rare a person displaying eccentric behaviour and mental characteristics that approach the psychotic

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Etymology

Origin of mattoid

C19: from Italian, from matto insane

Example Sentences

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And if a mattoid emperor caused the war, And Elenor Murrays put the emperor down, The emperor, could he laugh at all, can laugh To see a country, bent to spend its last Dollar, its blood to the last drop, having spent Enough of these, go mad as Barrett Bays.

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I thought at first you were a mattoid, but you're so amazingly consistent.

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"That man," said the Doctor in a low, earnest voice, "is a mattoid."

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And labyrinths of Horror's Home, 'Mid vapours green and aisles unsunned, Provoke each cursing mattoid's fold Until the night is changed to noon By cowled magicians on a dome.

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His biographer says that he was a "mattoid."

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