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Wild man
noun
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Noun
- 1 A primitive man who dwells outside of civilized society; a savage person without culture.
"He had rescued the duchess from the very fangs of the monster, which, he assured the ladies, was neither a wolf, nor a bear, nor yet a wild man of the woods."
- 2 a male person who is not socialized wordnet
- 3 A rowdy, dissolute, rash, or violent man.
"[H]e was a sinner, unregenerated, a wild man in her estimation, a being of quite another kind than herself."
- 4 A man who advocates unorthodox or outrageous opinions or who behaves in an eccentric manner.
""They're saying I'm a wild man. If I turn the trick, they'll say I'm a genius." So said Royal Little, the mild, 50-year-old president of Textron Inc., whose unconventional production ideas have built a textile empire in less than three years."
Etymology
From Middle English wilde man. Cognate with Dutch wildeman (“wildman, savage”). By surface analysis, wild + man.
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