maenad

noun

1. bacchante.
2. a frenzied or raging woman.

noun

1. classical myth a woman participant in the orgiastic rites of Dionysus; bacchante
2. a frenzied woman

n.“Bacchante,” 1570s, from Greek mainas (genitive mainados) “priestess of Bacchus,” literally “madwoman,” from stem of mainesthai “to rage, go mad” (see mania).