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Maniac
maniac
(maniacs) 1. A maniac is a mad person who is violent and dangerous. ...a drug-crazed maniac. N-COUNT 2. If you describe someone’s behaviour as maniac, you are emphasizing that it is extremely foolish and uncontrolled. A maniac driver sped 35 miles along the wrong side of a motorway at 110 mph. = lunatic ADJ: ADJ n c darkgreen]emphasis 3. If you call someone, for example, a religious maniac or a sports maniac, you are critical of them because they have such a strong interest in religion or sport. My mum is turning into a religious maniac. ...football maniacs. = fanatic N-COUNT: supp N c darkgreen]disapproval
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noun Etymology: Late Latin ~us ~al, from Greek maniakos, from mania Date: circa 1763 1. madman, lunatic 2. a person characterized by an inordinate or ungovernable enthusiasm for something ...Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary
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comb. form forming adjectives and nouns meaning 'affected with -mania' or 'a person affected with -mania' (nymphomaniac). MANIAC n. & adj. --n. 1 colloq. a person exhibiting extreme symptoms of wild behaviour etc.; a madman. 2 colloq. an obsessive enthusiast. 3 Psychol. archaic a person suffering from mania. --adj. of or behaving like a maniac. Derivatives maniacal adj. maniacally adv. Etymology: LL maniacus f. late Gk maniakos (as MANIA) ...Толковый словарь английского языка Oxford English Reference
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1. маньяк football maniac —- заядлый футболист; заядлый болельщик футбола speed maniac —- любитель больших скоростей 2. (-maniac) компонент сложных слов; в русском языке соответствует компоненту -ман Anglomaniac —- англоман bibliomaniac —- библиоман kleptomaniac —- клептоман 3. маниакальный 4. помешанный 5. разг. электронная счетно-решающая машина; компьютер ...Новый большой англо-русский словарь
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~ n 1 informal someone who behaves in a stupid or dangerous way (Some maniac overtook us on a bend.) 2 a religious maniac/sex maniac etc informal someone who thinks about religion, sex etc all the time (The woman's a sex maniac if you ask me.) 3 old-fashioned someone who is mentally ill ...Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
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