Wilding

adj, name, noun, verb

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Not cultivated or tame; wild. not-comparable, poetic

    "The wilding bee hums merrily by."

Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A surname.
Noun
  1. 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. 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. 3
    Any of a series of British stamps that have an image of Queen Elizabeth II based on a portrait by Dorothy Wilding.
  4. 4
    an outrageous rampage usually involving sexual attacks by men on women wordnet
  5. 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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  1. 6
    a wild uncultivated plant (especially a wild apple or crabapple tree) wordnet
Verb
  1. 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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