Tom o' Bedlam (English, noun)
expansion: Tom o' Bedlam (plural Tom o' Bedlams or Toms o' Bedlam)
Senses:
glosses: A wandering mendicant discharged as incurable from Bethlehem Hospital, England.
tags: historical
glosses: Any wandering mendicant, either mad or pretending to be so.
tags: archaic
glosses: A madman; a bedlamite.
tags: archaic
Forms:
form: Tom o' Bedlams
tags: plural
form: Toms o' Bedlam
tags: plural