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Definition: Wild |
WildAdjective1. Marked by extreme lack of restraint or control; "wild ideas"; "wild talk"; "wild originality"; "wild parties". 2. In a natural state; not tamed or domesticated or cultivated; "wild geese"; "edible wild plants". 3. In a state of extreme emotion; "wild with anger"; "wild with grief". 4. Deviating widely from an intended course; "a wild bullet"; "a wild pitch". 5. (of colors or sounds) intensely vivid or loud; "a violent clash of colors"; "her dress was a violent red"; "a violent noise"; "wild colors"; "wild shouts". 6. Not subjected to control or restraint; "a piano played with a wild exuberance"- Louis Bromfield. 7. Talking or behaving irrationally; "a raving lunatic". 8. Produced without being planted or without human labor; "wild strawberries". 9. Located in a dismal or remote area; desolate; "a desert island"; "a godforsaken wilderness crossroads"; "a wild stretch of land"; "waste places". 10. : without civilizing influences; "barbarian invaders"; "barbaric practices"; "a savage people"; "fighting is crude and uncivilized especially if the weapons are efficient"-Margaret Meade; "wild tribes". 11. : (of the elements) as if showing violent anger; "angry clouds on the horizon"; "furious winds"; "the raging sea". Adverb1. In an uncontrolled and rampant manner; "weeds grew rampantly around here". 2. In a wild or undomesticated manner; "growing wild"; "roaming wild". Noun1. A wild primitive state untouched by civilization; "he lived in the wild". 2. A wild and uninhabited area. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "wild" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references) |
Note: Wild \Wild\, adjective. [Comparative Wilder; superlative Wildest.]. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Dream Interpretation | To dream that you are running about wild, foretells that you will sustain a serious fall or accident. To see others doing so, denotes unfavorable prospects will cause you worry and excitement. Source: Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted .... |
Literature | Wild (Jonathan), the detective, born at Wolverhampton, in Staffordshire. He brought to the gallows thirty-five highwaymen, twenty-two housebreakers, and ten returned convicts. He was himself hanged at Tyburn for housebreaking "amidst the execrations of an enraged populace, who pelted him with stones to the last moment of his existence." (1682-1725.) Fielding has a novel entitled Jonathan Wild. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
Multilingual Slang | Scots (radge). (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Poker games may contain one or more cards designated as wild. These may be jokers, or they may be normal ranked and suited cards pressed into wild card duty ("deuces wild" is a common variant). There are two rules in common use regarding wildcards: fully wild cards and the bug.A card that is fully wild can be designated by its holder as any card he chooses with no restrictions. Under this rule, for example, a hand with any natural pair and a wild card becomes three of a kind. The common rule in casinos is that a wild card plays as a Bug, which is given the rank of ace unless designating it as a different card would complete a Straight, Flush, or Straight flush. Under this rule, a hand such as K-K-Joker-5-2 is just a pair of kings (with an ace Kicker), but any four same-suit cards with a bug make a Flush, and a hand such as 7-Joker-5-4-3 makes a straight.
Two exceptions to standard poker practice sometimes seen in home games are the Double-ace flush rule, and the natural wins rule. The latter rule states that between hands that would otherwise tie, the hand with fewer wild cards wins. This is not common in casinos and should be treated as an exception to standard practice (as is the double-ace flush).
There is a tendency among some players to regard wild cards as "impure" or treat wild card games as silly or amateurish. While it is certainly true that a game with too many wild cards can become so random that all skill is lost, the occasional use of wild cards is a good way to add variation to a game and add opportunities for skillful play. In particular, Five-card draw is traditionally played with a joker in California (which plays as a bug), and also plays well with deuces fully wild. Seven-card stud plays well with one or two bugs, especially when played High-low split. Other games such as Texas holdem and Omaha do not play well with wild cards. The problem with wild-card games is that the winner is almost always the hand with the most wild cards, making the other cards irrelevant, and making skill less important.
Another flaw with wild cards is that they distort the hand frequencies. In 5-card stud, the stronger hands are less frequent than the weaker hands. I.e., no pair is most common, followed by one pair, two pair, three of a kind, etc. When you add wild cards, the stronger hands gain frequency while the weaker hands lose frequency. For example, if you have a pair and a wild card, you will always choose three of a kind rather than two pair. This causes three of a kind to be more common than two pair.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Wild card (poker)."
| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
WILD | English | Web interface definition language | Computing |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
Synonyms: WildSynonyms: angry (adj), barbarian (adj), barbaric (adj), desert (adj), furious (adj), godforsaken (adj), raging (adj), raving (adj), raving mad (adj), savage (adj), spontaneous (adj), tempestuous (adj), uncivilised (adj), uncivilized (adj), untamed (adj), violent (adj), waste (adj), rampantly (adv), natural state (n), state of nature (n), wilderness (n). (additional references) |
| Antonym: tame (adj). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Avoidance | Adjective: unsought, unattempted; avoiding; Verb: neutral, shy of; (unwilling); elusive, evasive; fugitive, runaway; shy, wild. |
Excitability | Vehement, demonstrative, violent, wild, furious, fierce, fiery, hot-headed, madcap. |
Excitation | Flaming; boiling over; ebullient, seething; foaming at the mouth; fuming, raging, carried away by passion, wild, raving, frantic, mad, distracted, beside oneself, out of one's wits, ready to burst, bouleverse, demoniacal. |
Improbability | Adjective: improbable, unlikely, contrary to all reasonable expectation; wild, far out, out of sight, outtasight, heavy. |
Inattention | Adjective: inattentive; unobservant, unmindful, heedless, unthinking, unheeding, undiscerning; inadvertent; mindless, regardless, respectless, listless; (indifferent); blind, deaf; bird-witted; hand over head; cursory, percursory; giddy-brained, scatter-brained, hare-brained; unreflective, unreflecting, ecervele; offhand; dizzy, muzzy, brainsick; giddy, giddy as a goose; wild, harum-scarum, rantipole, highflying; heedless, careless; (neglectful). |
Insanity | Corybantic, dithyrambic; rabid, giddy, vertiginous, wild; haggard, mazed; flighty; distracted, distraught; depressed; agitated, hyped up; bewildered; (uncertain). |
Intemperance | Adjective: intemperate,inabstinent; sensual, self-indulgent; voluptuous, luxurious, licentious, wild, dissolute, rakish, fast, debauched. |
Plain | Noun: plain, table-land, face of the country; open country, champaign country; basin, downs, waste, weary waste, desert, wild, steppe, pampas, savanna, prairie, heath, common, wold, veldt; moor, moorland; bush; plateau. (level); campagna; alkali flat, llano; mesa, mesilla, playa; shaking prairie, trembling prairie; vega. |
Rashness | Adjective: rash, incautious, indiscreet; imprudent, improvident, temerarious; uncalculating; heedless; careless; (neglectful); without ballast, heels over head, head over heels; giddy; (inattentive); wanton, reckless, wild, madcap; desperate, devil-may-care. |
Resentment | Fierce, wild, rageful, furious, mad with rage, fiery, infuriate, rabid, savage; relentless. |
Unproductiveness | Waste, desert, Sahara, wild, wilderness, howling wilderness. |
Unskillfulness | Unadvised; ill-advised, misadvised; ill-devised, ill-imagined, ill-judged, ill-contrived, ill-conducted; unguided, misguided; misconducted, foolish, wild; infelicitous; penny wise and pound foolish; (inconsistent). |
Violence | Adjective: violent, vehement; warm; acute, sharp; rough, rude, ungentle, bluff, boisterous, wild; brusque, abrupt, waspish; impetuous; rampant. |
Vulgarity | Dowdy; slovenly; (dirty); ungenteel, shabby genteel; low, common, hoi polloi; (plebeian); uncourtly; uncivil; (discourteous); ill bred, ill mannered; underbred; ungentlemanly, ungentlemanlike; unladylike, unfeminine; wild, wild as an unbacked colt. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Wild |
| English words defined with "wild": African wild ass, Asian wild ox ♦ Canada wild rye ♦ nodding wild onion ♦ wild apple, Wild boar, wild cabbage, Wild cherry, wild crab, wild emmer, wild flower, Wild fowl, wild garlic, wild geranium, Wild goose chase, wild hollyhock, Wild honey, wild morning-glory, Wild oat, Wild olive, wild onion, wild ox, wild plum, wild spinach, wild wheat. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "wild": Animals, Wild ♦ Peter the Wild Boy ♦ Shoe the Wild Colt ♦ Wild as a March Hare, wild card, Wild Children, wild game, Wild Huntsman, Wild Man, WILD ROGUES, wild side, wild silk, WILD SQUIRT, wild steel, wild vines, Wild Women. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "wild": Wildgrave. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Wild" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. Dutch (dreary, ferocious, savage, uncultivated, wild), German (berserk, boisterous, boisterously, bold, crook, deer, feral, ferocious, ferociously, fierce, frantic, furious, furiously, game, haggard, helter-skelter, illegal, rabid, rambunctious, rampant, riotous, riotously, rough, rugged, savage, savagely, truculently, undomesticated, ungovernable, unofficial, unruly, venison, wholesale, wild, wildcat, wildly). |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | Just because you're a big movie star, wild parties, swimming pools, you expect every girl to fall in a dead faint at your feet (Singin' in the Rain; writing credit: Betty Comden; Adolph Green) Who knows what you have spoken to the darkness, alone, in the bitter watches of the night, when all your life seems to shrink, the walls of your bower closing in about you, a hutch to trammel some wild thing in (The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers; writing credit: Frances Walsh) No, no, no. I want him fighting weally, wild, wavish animals by the mowning (Life of Brian; writing credit: Graham Chapman; John Cleese) Come away O human child To the waters and the wild With a faery hand in hand, For the world's more full of weeping Than you can understand (Artificial Intelligence: AI; writing credit: Ian Watson) This is no fantasy - no careless product of wild imagination (Superman; writing credit: Jerry Siegel; Joe Shuster) | |
Lyrics | Wild horses keep draggin' me away (Wild Horses; performing artist: Garth Brooks) Now let me welcome everybody to the wild, wild west (California Love; performing artist: 2 PAC) Your existence makes me wild (Give Me Just One Night (Una Noche); performing artist: 98 Degrees; writing credit: A. Bagge, A. Birgisson, C. Ogalde) My favorite thing that drives me wild (Girls of Summer; performing artist: Aerosmith) Wild and free I could feel the sun (Show Me The Meaning Of Being Lonely; performing artist: Backstreet Boys) | |
Clever | Old folks say, "My wild oats have turned to prunes and All Bran. (references; author: unknown) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Power Rangers Wild Force (2002) Wild Bill (2002) Hog Wild (1974) Ob Dirndl oder Lederhose - gejodelt wird ganz wild drauflos (1974) Last of the Wild (1974) | |
Song Titles | Wild Women (performing artist: The Big Three) Wild Horses (performing artist: Garth Brooks) Wild Night (performing artist: John Mellencamp with Me'Shell NdegéOcello) Born To Be Wild (performing artist: Steppenwolf) Wild, Wild West (performing artist: The Escape Club) | |
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 | People involved in trapping and skinning wild carnivores, especially bobcats, should be extremely cautious about exposure to Y. pestis vectors. Credit: CDC. |  | Domesticated animals afflicted with dumb rabies may become increasingly depressed, and try to hide in isolated places, while wild animals seem to lose their fear of human beings, often appearing unusually friendly. Credit: CDC. |
 | Observing with a Wild T-4 Theodolite. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |  | Squinch observing with a Wild T-3 theodolite. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |
 | 4 diamondback terrapins about to be released in wild. Credit: America's Coastlines. |  | Young snapping turtles being released into the wild. The one on the left is underwater. Credit: America's Coastlines. |
 | "The Southern Party on Board the Nimrod. Left to right - Wild, Shackleton, Marshall, Adams. In: "The Heart of the Antarctic", Volume I, by E. H. Shackleton, 1909. P. 364. Library Call Number G149 S52. Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth. |  | Checking the angles - Wild T-2 theodolite carrying case in right foreground. Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth. |
 | Photo #1 of sequence - The fishing vessel WILD GOOSE tying up. Credit: Fisheries. |  | Photo #2 of sequence - The fishing vessel WILD GOOSE tying up. Credit: Fisheries. |
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| "Wild Blueberries" by Ryan Ackerman Commentary: "Beautiful aren't they? We picked some of these on our hike. They taste as good as they look." | "The wild, wild west" by Jørgen Anker Commentary: "Taken on a warm and quiet afternoon i Maarum, Denmark." |
Source: photographs selected by the editor, with permission from the photographers. | |
| Play | Caption | Play | Caption |
 | Wild soprano saxophone playing within a straight-ahead jazz style. | | A wild animal making aggressive attacking noises and breathing. |
| Wild tenor saxophone. | ||
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Author | Quotation |
Cervantes | Why do you lead me a wild goose chase? |
Colley Cibber | Thou strange piece of wild nature! |
Denis Diderot | Poetry must have something in it that is barbaric, vast and wild. |
Francis Bacon | Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god. |
George Farquhar | Grant me some wild expressions, Heavens, or I shall burst. |
Oscar Wilde | Every woman is a rebel, and usually in wild revolt against herself. |
Robert Browning | O lyric Love, half angel and half bird. And all a wonder and a wild desire. |
Robert Green Ingersoll | Courage without conscience is a wild beast. |
William Cowper | No wild enthusiast could rest, till half the world like him was possessed. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | |
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John Locke | 1690 | Laws politic, ordained for external order and regiment amongst men, are never framed as they should be, unless presuming the will of man to be inwardly obstinate, rebellious, and averse from all obedience to the sacred laws of his nature; in a word, unless presuming man to be, in regard of his depraved mind, little better than a wild beast, they do accordingly provide, notwithstanding, so to frame his outward actions, that they be no hindrance unto the common good, for which societies are instituted. (Second Treatise of Government) |
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Emma | Austen, Jane | But here there was nothing to be shifted off in a wild speculation on the future |
Maggie's Visit to Oxford | Carroll, Lewis | In Magdalen Park the deer are wild With joy, that Maggie brings Some bread a friend had given the child, To feed the pretty things |
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy | Douglas Adams | Trillian had come to suspect that the main reason why he had had such a wild and successful life that he never really understood the significance of anything he did. |
Scarlet Letter | Hawthorne, Nathaniel | She broke continually into shouts of a wild, inarticulate, and sometimes piercing music |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | He took the two candlesticks mechanically, and with a wild appearance |
Absalom and Achitophel | John Dryden | But wild Ambition loves to slide, not stand, And Fortune's ice prefers to Virtue's land |
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man | Joyce, James | Read locusts and wild honey |
Grapes of Wrath | Steinbeck, John | The wild doves flew up from the fences as the truck passed |
Gulliver's Travels | Swift, Jonathan | The people in the streets walked fast, looked wild, their eyes fixed, and were generally in rags |
Walden | Thoreau, Henry David | Grow wild according to thy nature, like these sedges and brakes, which will never become English bay. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | Most were in wild animals. (references) | |
Never approach a wild animal. (references) | ||
Cook wild game meat thoroughly. (references) | ||
Business | Wild dumping in and around these areas is common. (references) | |
Joint Ventures are associated with high risk. This sector is notorious for wild business practices and corruption. (references) | ||
The American Wild West fascinates British travelers, and this type of gently rugged holiday appeals to families and the “soft adventure” group alike. (references) | ||
Economic History | France | In addition, niche markets exist in France for candies, chocolate bars, wild rice and kosher foods which have shown a rising demand. (references) |
France | Niche market opportunities also exist for regional American foodstuffs (Cajun, California Cuisine and Tex-Mex), candies and chocolates, wild rice, and organic and health food products. (references) | |
Bangladesh | The Sundarbans, an area of coastal tropical jungle in the southwest and last wild home of the Bengal Tiger, and the Chittagong Hill Tracts on the southeastern border with Burma and India, are the least densely populated. (references) | |
Human Rights | Paraguay | Recruits commonly charged that the military does not give them enough to eat and forces them to hunt wild animals or steal cattle for food. (references) |
Political Economy | KUWAIT | A special import license is required to import certain kinds of goods, such as firearms, explosives, drugs and wild animals. (references) |
PERU | Import licenses have been abolished for all products except firearms, munitions and explosives; chemical precursors (used in illegal narcotics production); ammonium nitrate fertilizer (which has been used as a blast enhancer for terrorist car bombs); wild plant and animal species; and some radio and communication equipment. (references) | |
Trade | Tanzania | There are no export controls other than for protected wild animals. (references) |
Switzerland | Shipments of some vegetables, fresh fruits and wild plants must be accompanied by official plant health certificates of the country of origin. (references) | |
Nicaragua | A CITES (Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species) permit is required for the export of wild and precious species, including precious woods. (references) | |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | TORTOISE, n. A creature thoughtfully created to supply occasion for the following lines by the illustrious Ambat Delaso: TO MY PET TORTOISE My friend, you are not graceful -- not at all; Your gait's between a stagger and a sprawl. Nor are you beautiful: your head's a snake's To look at, and I do not doubt it aches. As to your feet, they'd make an angel weep. 'Tis true you take them in whene'er you sleep. No, you're not pretty, but you have, I own, A certain firmness -- mostly you're [sic] backbone. Firmness and strength (you have a giant's thews) Are virtues that the great know how to use -- I wish that they did not; yet, on the whole, You lack -- excuse my mentioning it -- Soul. So, to be candid, unreserved and true, I'd rather you were I than I were you. Perhaps, however, in a time to be, When Man's extinct, a better world may see Your progeny in power and control, Due to the genesis and growth of Soul. So I salute you as a reptile grand Predestined to regenerate the land. Father of Possibilities, O deign To accept the homage of a dying reign! In the far region of the unforeknown I dream a tortoise upon every throne. I see an Emperor his head withdraw Into his carapace for fear of Law; A King who carries something else than fat, Howe'er acceptably he carries that; A President not strenuously bent On punishment of audible dissent -- Who never shot (it were a vain attack) An armed or unarmed tortoise in the back; Subject and citizens that feel no need To make the March of Mind a wild stampede; All progress slow, contemplative, sedate, And "Take your time" the word, in Church and State. O Tortoise, 'tis a happy, happy dream, My glorious testudinous regime! I wish in Eden you'd brought this about By slouching in and chasing Adam out. |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
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Andrew Weil | You eat lots of fruits and vegetables, you include some of the good carbohydrates, which are things like beans and some sweet potatoes or winter squashes in moderation, even some whole grains like wild rice or barley in whole grain form. |
Jack Hanna | They're pretty fast. By the way, the chinchilla is almost extinct in the wild. We have thousands of them in captivity. |
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Thomas Jefferson | 1801-1809 | But his imagination is wild and extravagant, escapes incessantly from every restraint of reason and taste, and, in the course of its vagaries, leaves a tract of thought as incoherent and eccentric, as is the course of a meteor through the sky. |
Andrew Jackson | 1829-1837 | The banks proceeded to make loans upon this surplus, and thus converted it into banking capital, and in this manner it has tended to multiply bank charters and has had a great agency in producing a spirit of wild speculation. |
Warren G. Harding | 1921-1923 | Any wild experiment will only add to the confusion. |
Lyndon B. Johnson | 1963-1969 | We hope to make the Potomac a model of beauty here in the Capital, and preserve unspoiled stretches of some of our waterways with a Wild Rivers bill. |
Ronald Reagan | 1981-1989 | Contrary to some of the wild charges you may have heard, this administration has not and will not turn its back on America's elderly or America's poor. |
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| "Wild" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 98.61% of the time. "Wild" is used about 4,657 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 98.61% | 4,592 | 2,130 |
| Adverb (general) | 1.31% | 61 | 43,149 |
| Noun (proper) | 0.09% | 4 | 175,879 |
| Total | 100.00% | 4,657 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "wild" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Wild | Last name | 3,000 | 3,921 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
| The following table summarizes names derived from the word "wild". | |||
| Name | Gender | Language | Meaning |
| Arad | N/A | Biblical | A wild ass |
| Irad | N/A | Biblical | Wild ass |
| Piram | N/A | Biblical | A wild ass of them |
| Shapham | N/A | Biblical | Wild rat |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references.
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| Country | Name |
| USA | Wild Oats Markets, Inc |
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Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.
Expressions using "wild": A wild goose chase ♦ a wild guess ♦ a wild scheme ♦ african wild ass ♦ african wild dog ♦ Arizona wild cotton ♦ asian wild ox ♦ be wild about ♦ be wild with terror ♦ become wild ♦ becoming wild ♦ Canada wild rye ♦ Canadian wild rice ♦ drive smb. wild ♦ drive wild ♦ get wild ♦ Glen Wild ♦ go on a wild goose chase ♦ go wild ♦ going wild ♦ gone wild ♦ grow wild ♦ grown wild ♦ half wild ♦ he has sown his wild oats ♦ in a fit of wild enthusiasm ♦ it is only a wild guess ♦ Jonathan Wild ♦ lead a wild life ♦ make wild ♦ nodding wild onion ♦ received with wild applause ♦ run wild ♦ saw one's wild oats ♦ send off on a wild goose chase ♦ sexually compatible wild relative ♦ slender wild oat ♦ small wild bugloss ♦ sow one's wild ♦ sow one's wild oats ♦ talk wild ♦ talk wild about ♦ the wild west ♦ To run wild ♦ To sow one's wild oats ♦ trail used by wild animals ♦ uttering wild prophecies ♦ wild about ♦ wild allspice ♦ wild ancestral relative ♦ wild and woolly ♦ wild angelica ♦ wild animal ♦ wild apple ♦ wild artichoke ♦ wild as an unbacked colt ♦ wild ass ♦ wild balsam apple ♦ wild basil ♦ wild bean ♦ wild beast ♦ wild bee ♦ wild bergamot ♦ Wild Bill Hickock ♦ wild blue yonder ♦ wild boar ♦ wild brier ♦ wild buckwheat ♦ wild bugloss ♦ wild burnet ♦ wild cabbage ♦ wild calla ♦ wild camomile ♦ wild card ♦ wild carrot ♦ wild cat ♦ wild cavy ♦ wild celery ♦ wild chamomile ♦ wild cherry ♦ WILD CHERRY BARK ♦ wild cherry tree ♦ wild chervil ♦ wild China tree ♦ wild cinnamon ♦ wild clary ♦ wild climbing hempweed ♦ wild coffee ♦ wild comfrey ♦ wild cotton ♦ wild crab ♦ wild cranberry ♦ wild crocus ♦ wild cumin ♦ wild dog ♦ wild drake ♦ wild duck ♦ wild elder ♦ wild emmer ♦ wild endive ♦ wild enthusiasm. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "wild": wild-bird, wild-born, wild-card, wild-cards, Wild-cat, wild-caught, wild-collected, wild-eyed, wild-fire, wild-flower, wild-flower-pressing, wild-flowers, wild-flying, wild-fowl, wild-fowlers, wild-fowling, wild-goose, wild-goose chase, wild-growing, wild-haired, wild-ice, wild-ish, wild-life, wild-living, wild-looking, wild-man, wild-men, wild-oat, wild-oats, wild-rose, wild-tangle, wild-type, wild-water, wild-west. | |
Ending with "wild": half-wild, semi-wild. | |
Containing "wild": Crp-wild-type. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency per Day |
girl gone wild | 26,939 | wild rose | 875 |
wild flower | 14,338 | wet wild | 849 |
wild flower seed | 4,839 | wild arms 3 | 848 |
wild bird | 3,533 | san diego wild animal park | 769 |
rugrats go wild | 2,487 | wild animal baby | 752 |
wild west | 2,428 | wild on e | 703 |
wild cherry | 2,269 | gone wild | 650 |
wild horse | 2,002 | wild sex | 639 |
wild | 1,908 | wild turkey | 626 |
wild animal | 1,773 | wild woman | 622 |
wild cherries.com | 1,626 | wild cherry teen | 620 |
wild girl | 1,549 | wild cherry tgp | 615 |
wild cat | 1,491 | wild wave | 562 |
go rugrats wild.com | 1,349 | com go rugrats wild | 546 |
gina wild | 1,253 | wild flower garden | 544 |
girl gone wild.com | 1,207 | girl gone wild pic | 539 |
wild adventure | 1,199 | wild on | 525 |
wild animal park | 1,008 | wild arms | 523 |
wild party | 966 | wild things | 505 |
wet n wild | 939 | buffalo wild wings | 500 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "wild"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Afrikaans | wilde vark (wild boar). (various references) | |
Albanian | xanxar (untamed), shkretëtirë (desert), primitiv (primal, primitive, primordial), i tërbuar (berserk, berserker, enraged, frantic, frenzied, furious, mad, rabid, rampageous, rampant, riotous), i shkretë (blessed, desert, deserted, desolate, devoid of inhabitants, inhospitable, lifeless, lonely, lonesome, poor, waste), i pashtruar (implacable, insubordinate, perverse, rebellious, restive, unlaid, unruly, unsubmissive), i papërmbajtur (demonstrative, ebullient, effuse, effusive, fiery, gushing, harum scarum, hot-blooded, hot-headed, Hotspur, immoderate, incontinent, intemperate, jazz, jazzy, lawless, out of hand, rampageous, rampant, unchecked, unconscionable, uncontained, uncontrollable, unreserved, unrestrained, wanton), i egër (atrocious, barbarous, bestial, cannibalic, cannibalish, cruel, despiteful, ferae naturae, feral, ferine, ferocious, fierce, furious, merciless, outrageous, rabid, savage, snappish, tigerish, tigrish, vicious), i çmendur (anile, bedlamite, berserk, crack-brained, cracked, cracky, crazed, crazy, daft, demented, deranged, dippy, frantic, insane, loony, lunatic, mad, madman, muddy, non compos, not all there, phrenetic, underwit). (various references) | |
Arabic | مستسلم, مسعور (crazy, frantic, frenetic, frenzied, hydrophobic, mad, rabid), همجي (barbarian, barbaric, barbarous, bestial, heathen, hooligan, outlandish, ruffian, ruffianly, savage, skinhead, uncivil, uncivilised, undisciplined), قفر (desert, tumble, waste, wasteland, wild land, wilderness), وحشي (atrocious, barbarian, barbarous, bestial, bloodthirsty, bloody, brutal, brute, brutish, cannibalistic, cruel, diabolic, diabolical, draconian, feral, fiendish, fierce, ill, inhuman, inhumane, insensate, remorseless, ruffian, savage, truculent, unfeeling, vicious, wanton), غليظ (boor, churlish, coarse, hoarse, loutish, mannerless, robust, rugged, rustic, stodgy, strongarm, thick, ungainly, unmannerly), على نحو جامح, عاصف (boisterous, dirty, gusty, inclement, rough, squally, stormy, surging, tempestuous, thunderous, torricellian, tumultuous, unruly, winded, windy, wintry), جامح (headstrong, inordinate, mad, madcap, raving, stubborn, unruly, wilful), جاف (arid, becoming dry, boorish, brittle, churlish, crude, curt, dehydrated, desiccated, dried, dry, dryish, gross, harsh, objectionable, rough, surly, unceremonious, uncivil, uncouth, ungracious), الحالة البرية, شاذ (aberrant, anomalous, atypical, bastard, bizarre, eccentric, erratic, exotic, extraordinary, extravagant, far fetched, freak, intriguing, irregular, monstrous, moonstruck, odd, off beat, outlandish, preternatural, prodigious, queer, rogue, scatty, singular, stupendous, thumping), بور, بري حيوان, بري (overland, sharpening, terrestrial). (various references) | |
Aymara | qolli (wild olive), muña (wild oregano), achulla (wild rat). (various references) | |
Bavarian | wuidsau (wild boar). (various references) | |
Blackfoot | saokiipisatsiinikimm (wild onion), iimitaohkatsi (wild strawberry). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | напосоки (at random), дива местност, диво съществуване, диво състояние, плашлив (fearful, flighty, nervy, shy, skittish, spooky, timid, timorous), подивял (feral, grown wild, rogue, unsociable), произволно (arbitrarily), пущинак (common, waste, wasteland, wilderness), пуст (bleak, desert, deserted, desolate, drear, empty, harsh, inane, infernal, inhospitable, uncouth, uninhabited, vacant, vain, waste, yeasty), пустиня (desert, wilderness), пустош (desolation, moor, moorland, waste, waste land, wasteland, wilderness), безумен (cockeyed, frantic, insane, lunatic, mad), бесен (demonic, mad, rabid, raging, tearing, violent), див (barbarous, dark, ferae naturae, feral, ferine, ferocious, frenzied, harsh, heathen, lupine, natural, orgiastic, rough, savage, tameless, uncivilized, uncultivated, untamed), луд (bedlamite, bonkers, crazed, crazy, daft, demented, kinky, loco, lunatic, mad, madman, maniac, off one's nut, off one's rocker, out of one's mind, possessed, potty, scatty, screwy), свободно състояние (loose), налудничав (mad, madcap, nutty, possessed, queer, whacked), наслуки (at a venture, at haphazard, at random, hit or miss, in a haphazard way), необитаем (uninhabitable), необмислен (blind, crude, hasty, heedless, ill-considered, ill-judged, impetuous, imprudent, incautious, inconsiderate, light hearted, light-headed, overbold, precipitate, precipitatious, rash, reckless, snap, thoughtless, unadvised, unconsidered, unguarded, unthinking, unwary), необуздан (bacchanal, hot, intractable, lawless, mad, obstreperous, orgiastic, phrenetic, rambunctious, rampageous, rampant, riotous, tearaway, unbounded, unbridled, unchecked, uncontrollable, ungovernable, unrestrained, unruled, vagrant, wanton, zizzi), обезумял (berserk, distracted, frenzied, lunatic, mad, witless), вбесен (livid, red-hot, waxy), френетичен (frenetic), разрошен (dishevelled), рядко населена местност, ядосан съм, свободно съществуване, бурен (angry, blusterous, blustery, boiling, darnel, dirty, fierce, heavy, roaring, rogue, rough, rugged, stormy, tearaway, tempestuous, thunderous, turbulent, vehement, violent, weed). (various references) | |
Chinese | 野生 (undomesticated), 野 (boundary, field, limit, open space, plain, rude), 猖獗 (rampant, unchecked), 猖披 (unrestrained), 猖 (mad), 狂放, 瘋 (insane, mad), 埌 (wasteland). (various references) | |
Czech | divoký (boisterous, feral, ferine, ferocious, fierce, gone wild, obstreperous, truculent, uncivilized, unruly, untamed, wildcat). (various references) | |
Danish | vild (astray, ferocious, savage). (various references) | |
Dutch | woest (dreary, ferocious, fierce, furious, gaunt, savage), wild (dreary, ferocious, savage). (various references) | |
Esperanto | sovaĝa (savage). (various references) | |
Faeroese | villur (ferocious, savage). (various references) | |
Farsi | وحشی (Barbaric, Barbarous, Brutal, Ferocious, Gross, Harebrained, Rambunctious, Ruffian, Ruttish, Savage, Truculent, Uncivil, Uncivilized, Undaunted, Ungovernable, Unshaped(En)), خودرو (Automobile, Automotive, Weedy), جنگلی (Sylvan), شیفته ودیوانه . (various references) | |
Finnish | villi (independent, savage), rasavilli (boisterous, mischief tomboy), kesytön (untamed), jylhä (gloomy, rough, rugged), hurja (frantic, furious, unrestrained, violent), huima (reckless), hillitön (ummanageable, unchecked, uncontrollable, ungovernable, unrestrained, unruly). (various references) | |
French | sauvage. (various references) | |
Frisian | wyld (ferocious, savage). (various references) | |
German | wild (berserk, boisterous, boisterously, bold, crook, deer, feral, ferocious, ferociously, fierce, frantic, furious, furiously, game, haggard, helter-skelter, illegal, rabid, rambunctious, rampant, riotous, riotously, rough, rugged, savage, savagely, truculently, undomesticated, ungovernable, unofficial, unruly, venison, wholesale, wildcat, wildly), verrückt (Batty, crack-brained, crazily, crazy, daft, daisy, demented, dementedly, insane, insanely, kinky, kooky, loco, loony, lunatic, mad, madly, mentally unbalanced, mind-boggling, nuts, potty, psycho, raving, scatty, screwy, unbalanced, wackily, wacky, whimsical, zany). (various references) | |
Greek | έρημη γη, ξέφρενοσ (frenetic, frenzied), μη σταθεροποιημένος, άγριοσ (black, feral, ferocious, fierce, harsh, lupin, lupine, sassy, savage, truculent, violent), άγριος (ferocious, fierce, harsh, savage, truculent). (various references) | |
Hebrew | שממה (desolation, waste, wasteland, wilderness), פרוע (chaotic, disorderly, rampant, rank, riotous, tumultuous, turbulent, unruly), פראי (bestial, brutal, brute, feral, ferocious, fierce, savage, truculent), פרא אדם (ruffian, savage), פרא (savage, wild ass, wildcat), בר (except, open field, outside of, prairie, without), רותח (boiling, ebullient, furious, vehement). (various references) | |
Hungarian | &n |
