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wilding

noun

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adj

Etymology: Etymology tree English wild English -ing English wilding From wild + -ing.

  1. Not cultivated or tame; wild.

    The wilding bee hums merrily by.

    And here had fall'n a great part of a tower, / Whole, like a crag that tumbles from the cliff, / And like a crag was gay with wilding flowers: […]

name

  1. A surname.

noun

Etymology: From Middle English wilding, wylding, wyldyng (“grass, straw, or the stems of wild plants”), equivalent to wild + -ing.

  1. A form of youth violence characterized by a group of young people committing violent acts randomly and without specific targets.

verb

Etymology: Etymology tree English wild English -ing English wilding From wild + -ing.

  1. present participle and gerund of wild

    Those boys are bad enough, and soon they'll start their wilding.

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