See Also: cacodemonomania(medicine)

grandaddy (oh) and cacodemonomania (medicine)


grandaddy (oh)



[C] AmE informal
grandfather
the grandaddy of sth
the first or greatest example of something
::Louis Armstrong, the grandaddy of all jazz trumpeters

cacodemonomania (medicine)


cacodemonomania
<psychiatry> A mental condition in which the patient believes himself to be inhabited by or possessed by an evil spirit.

Origin: caco-+ G. Daimon, spirit, + mania, frenzy