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单词 wild man
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wild mann.

Brit. /ˈwʌɪld man/, U.S. /ˈwaɪld ˌmæn/
Forms: (Also formerly with hyphen, or as one word.)
Etymology: Compare Dutch wilde mann cannibal, German wildemann, wildmann, wilder mann, Old Norse villumaðr.
1. A man who is wild, in various senses of the adjective.
a. A man of rough, savage, fierce, or unruly nature or character (cf. wild adj. 6, 7).
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the mind > goodness and badness > harmfulness > savagery > savage person > [noun]
wolfa900
liona1225
beastc1225
wild manc1290
tiger?a1513
Turk1536
club-fist1575
scourgemutton1581
wolver1593
vulture1605
savage1609
inhuman1653
brutal1655
Tartar1669
hyena1671
dragoon1712
Huna1744
panther1822
the world > action or operation > behaviour > bad behaviour > fierceness > [noun] > person or being
wolfa900
liona1225
wild manc1290
boar1297
fell1340
tiger?a1513
centaur1565
wolver1593
to speak bandog and Bedlam1600
vulture1605
killbuck1612
man-tigera1652
Tartar1669
hyena1671
dragoon1712
vampire1741
Huna1744
panther1868
c1290 S. Eng. Leg. 47/17 Wylde Men ne louede he nouȝt, þat rechelese weren of þouȝte.
13.. R. Glouc. Chron. (Rolls) App. H. 136 A wuilde men [read man] fol bolde Þe king sende in to þe court to þe heiȝe men of þe londe.
c1480 (a1400) St. Matthew 402 in W. M. Metcalfe Legends Saints Sc. Dial. (1896) I. 201 Þare-for be ȝe of stedfast wil, þocht wyld men wil ȝov do Il.
1513 Inventory in State Papers Henry VIII (P.R.O.: SP 1/4) f. 36 A Seler and a tester of Redsay and therein a wilde man Ryding on a horse.
1630 T. Randolph Aristippus 7 I am the Wilde-man, and I will be wilde: is that an age to be in a mans right wits?
a1639 W. Whately Prototypes (1640) i. xvi. 161 A wild man lives as he lists himselfe.
b. (wild adj. 5) An uncivilized or primitive man; a man reverted to a primitive state; = savage n.1 3a.
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society > society and the community > customs, values, and civilization > civilization > lack of civilization > [noun] > uncivilized person
wild mana1400
woodwose?a1400
savaginec1450
woodward1488
savagea1544
woodman1601
barbarian1604
woodist1613
wilding1621
brutigenist1631
catamountaina1640
Caliban1678
semi-barbarian1692
Hottentot1710
semi-savage1807
pagan1879
a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Gött.) l. 3081 Ismael..wonid þar as a wild man, In þat desert þat hight pharan.
1530 in Ancestor (1904) Oct. 181 Wolton beryth to his crest a woodwous a wylld man in his kynde vert.
1568 T. Hacket tr. A. Thevet New Found Worlde xxiv. 31 b We were well received of the Indians or wilde men of the Countrey.
1575 in Brydges Brit. Bibliogr. (1810) I. 541 To make waye in the streetes, there are certayne men apparelled lyke devells, and wylde men, with skybbs and certayne beadells.
1611 W. Adams Let. in T. Rundall Mem. Japon (1850) 37 Eight of our men..ranne from vs with the pinnesse, and (as we suppose) were eaten of the wild men.
1767 Ann. Reg., Chron. 47/1 Peter the wild man, who was taken in the Hartz Forest in Hanover.
1825 J. Neal Brother Jonathan II. 2 The wild man of North America is exceedingly unlike the wild man of every other country.
c. An extremist in a political party, a profession, etc. Usually in plural.
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society > authority > lack of subjection > [noun] > insubordinate person > those who disregard rule or custom
wild man1905
the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > exaggeration, hyperbole > [noun] > one who exaggerates > in action > and in opinion
extremite1546
extremist1846
wild man1905
society > authority > rule or government > politics > party politics > groups or attitudes right to left > [noun] > extremism > extremist > collectively
wild man1905
1905 D. G. Phillips Plum Tree 266 And I wished for a ‘wild man’ as the candidate for governor.
1910 H. Belloc Pongo & Bull xix. 287 The Wild Men on the Opposition side might cheer.
1923 Weekly Disp. 13 May 2 The wild men pin their faith to the Capital Levy as a vote-catcher.
1923 Daily Mail 23 July 14 All the ‘wild men’ of European music, such as Schönberg, Bartok, Prokoviev, Stravinsky, Alois Haba.., Milhaud, and Poulenc.
2. (wild adj. 1) A name for the orang-outang: also wild man of the woods (see wood n.1).
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the world > animals > mammals > order Primates > suborder Anthropoidea (higher primates) > [noun] > group Catarrhinae (Old World monkey) > member of superfamily Hominoidea (apes and humans) > family Pongidae (ape) > genus Pongo (orang-outang)
satyra1398
orangutan1699
man of the woods1755
pongo1775
orang1778
yahooc1790
wild man1791
mias1840
red orang1840
outang1869
lesser orang-utan1903
1769 E. Bancroft Ess. Nat. Hist. Guiana 131 These animals [sc. Orang-Outang], in all the different languages of the natives, are called by names signifying a Wild Man.]
1791 W. Smellie tr. Comte de Buffon Nat. Hist. Gen. & Particular (ed. 3) VIII. 97 As there is a greater similarity between this animal and man than between those creatures which resemble him most, as the Barbary ape [etc.], the Indians are to be excused for associating him with the human species, under the denomination of orang-outang, or wild man.
1881 J. Hatton New Ceylon iii. 72 The Bornean ‘wild man’ is quite harmless.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1924; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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