English Explanatory Dictionary

Tom o' Bedlam

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A wandering mendicant discharged as incurable from Bethlehem Hospital, England.
  2. Any wandering mendicant, either mad or pretending to be so.
  3. A madman; a bedlamite.

Word forms

Tom o' Bedlam Tom o' Bedlams Toms o' Bedlam
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