D defs.my
Entry 1 sense Webster, 1913

Tom o' Bedlam

/täm ō bĕd'-ləm/ · Tom o' Bed·lam · IPA
01 Formerly, a wandering mendicant discharged as incurable from Bethlehem Hospital, England; hence, a wandering mendicant, either mad or feign…
  1. 1.
    Formerly, a wandering mendicant discharged as incurable from Bethlehem Hospital, England; hence, a wandering mendicant, either mad or feigning to be so; a madman; a bedlamite.