wild man
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.76 in modern English
13
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A mythic or legendary primitive man inhabiting forests or wilderness regions, typically depicted as hairy all over and unclothed.
noun
A mythic or legendary primitive man inhabiting forests or wilderness regions, typically depicted as hairy all over and unclothed.
noun
A man who advocates unorthodox or outrageous opinions or who behaves in an eccentric manner.
Example Sentences
- "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."
- ""So said Hair-Face, and they killed him, because, they said, he was a wild man and wanted to go back and live in a tree.""
- "[H]e was a sinner, unregenerated, a wild man in her estimation, a being of quite another kind than herself."
- ""David and I are very enthusiastic people, and we want to be able to make lots of noise. . . . David is quite a wild man when he gets excited with music.""
- "He's a wild man, with all kinds of punches,—a whirlwind,— and he gets his man in the first rounds."
- "In no time, she has persuaded him to unleash his inner wild man, and soon they are washing down pills with booze and bouncing off the walls."
Etymology
From Middle English wilde man. Cognate with Dutch wildeman (“wildman, savage”). By surface analysis, wild + man.