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Wilding
adj, name, noun, verb
Definitions
Adjective
- 1 Not cultivated or tame; wild. not-comparable, poetic
"The wilding bee hums merrily by."
Proper Noun
- 1 A surname.
Noun
- 1 A wild apple or apple tree.
"These were ‘wildings’, wild crab apples (Malus sylvestris), a miniature of today's, native to the British Isles."
- 2 A form of youth violence characterized by a group of young people committing violent acts randomly and without specific targets. US, countable, uncountable
- 3 Any of a series of British stamps that have an image of Queen Elizabeth II based on a portrait by Dorothy Wilding.
- 4 an outrageous rampage usually involving sexual attacks by men on women wordnet
- 5 Any plant that grows wild; a wildflower, etc.
"Oft from the forrest wildings he did bring, / Whose sides empurpled were with smiling red […]"
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- 6 a wild uncultivated plant (especially a wild apple or crabapple tree) wordnet
Verb
- 1 present participle and gerund of wild form-of, gerund, participle, present
"Those boys are bad enough, and soon they'll start their wilding."
Etymology
Etymology 1
From Middle English wilding, wylding, wyldyng (“grass, straw, or the stems of wild plants”), equivalent to wild + -ing.
Etymology 2
From Middle English wilding, wylding, wyldyng (“grass, straw, or the stems of wild plants”), equivalent to wild + -ing.
Etymology 3
From wild + -ing.
Etymology 4
From wild + -ing.
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