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Wild

Untamed; not domesticated.

Pronunciation: /ˈwaɪ̯ld/, [ˈwaɪ̯ld]

What “Wild” means

Adj

  1. Untamed; not domesticated.
  2. Untamed; not domesticated.
  3. From or relating to wild creatures.
  4. Unrestrained or uninhibited.
  5. Raucous, unruly, or licentious.

Adv

  1. Inaccurately; not on target.
  2. Intended to be synchronized with film or video but recorded separately.

Noun

  1. The undomesticated state of a wild animal.
  2. A wilderness.
  3. Something that is able to stand in for others, such as a particular playing card in a game.

Verb

  1. To commit random acts of assault, robbery, and rape in an urban setting, especially as a gang.
  2. (In the form wilding or wildin') To act in a strange or unexpected way.

Where the word comes from

From Middle English weilde, wield, wielde, wijlde, wild, wilde, wyld, wylde, wyled, wyyld, from Old English wilde, from Proto-West Germanic *wilþī, from Proto-Germanic *wilþijaz (“wild”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂welh₁- (“hair; wool”). Cognates Cognate with North Frisian wil (“wild”), Saterland Frisian wíeld, wüüld (“wild”), West Frisian wyld (“wild”), Bavarian wüd (“wild”), Central Franconian weld (“wild”), Cimbrian bill (“crazy, mad; wild; stupid”), Dutch, German, and Low German wild (“wild”), Luxembourgish wëll (“wild; savage”), Vilamovian wyłd (“wild”), Yiddish ווילד (vild, “wild; savage”), Danish and Swedish vild (“wild”), Faroese villur (“wild”), Icelandic villtur (“wild; lost; barbaric, savage; uncultivated; untamed”), Norwegian Bokmål and Norwegian Nynorsk vill (“wild”), vill (“lost”), Gothic 𐍅𐌹𐌻𐌸𐌴𐌹𐍃 (wilþeis, “wild”); also Cornish gwlan (“wool”), Irish and Scottish Gaelic ola

Meanings and etymology from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

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