Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Somewhat wild.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Somewhat wild; rather wild.

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  • adjective Somewhat wild.

Etymologies

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wild +‎ -ish

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Examples

  • Harry (I could not have thought it; for he is a little wildish, they say) cried till he sobbed again.

    Pamela 2006

  • She could frighten a wildish cow and bail up anything that would stay in a yard with her.

    Robbery Under Arms 2004

  • Bella Barnes was going to marry a surveyor, a wildish young fellow, but a good one to work as ever was.

    Robbery Under Arms 2004

  • Round, wildish eyes, slightly near-sighted, completed a physiognomy essentially feline.

    From the Earth to the Moon 2003

  • He called me Mitchell and loved to tease me cause when I was soon out of highschool I started dressing in wildish outlandish clothes.

    brile Diary Entry brile 2002

  • Janenne took to wildish ways, and, leaving the home of their ancestors, went away to Paris and led extravagant lives there, gambling and drinking, and squandering their substance in other and even more foolish fashions, and at last there ceased to be estates of Janenne to draw upon, or even Counts of Janenne to draw.

    Schwartz: A History From "Schwartz" by David Christie Murray David Christie Murray

  • Fifth and sixth, a vacillating, staggering, decrepit creature with wildish white beard and eyes, who had been arrested -- incredibly enough -- for "rape."

    The Enormous Room 1928

  • Nourishment for much wildish speculation, in fact, can be got by considering what the world's literature would be, had its authors restricted themselves, as do we Americans so sedulously -- and unavoidably -- to writing of contemporaneous happenings.

    The Certain Hour James Branch Cabell 1918

  • But it was her mouth you remembered: the fulness and brevity of it, the deep indentation of its upper lip, the curves of it and its vivid crimson -- these roused you to wildish speculation as to its probable softness when Lady Allonby and Fate were beyond ordinary lenient.

    Gallantry Dizain des Fetes Galantes James Branch Cabell 1918

  • Nourishment for much wildish speculation, in fact, can be got by considering what the world's literature would be, had its authors restricted themselves, as do we Americans so sedulously -- and unavoidably -- to writing of contemporaneous happenings.

    The Certain Hour 1909

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