wildien.
/ˈwʌɪldi/ Angling colloquial.
A carp which is truly ‘wild’ as opposed to one bred artificially and placed as stock for anglers; occasionally applied to other fish. Usually in plural.
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the world > animals > fish > class Osteichthyes or Teleostomi > order Salmoniformes (salmon or trout) > superorder Ostariophysi or order Cypriniformes > [noun] > suborder Cyprinoidei > family Cyprinidae (minnows and carps) > cyprinus carpio (carp) > wild
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1968 J. A. Gibbinson Carp ii. 33 (caption) A catch of ‘wildies’ from the Nene.
1972 P. Mohan Carp for Everyone iii. 47 This original carp is now generally known as the wild carp, or ‘wildie’, to distinguish it from the results of later selective breeding experiments.
1980 G. Sharman Carp & Carp Angler vii. 160 There is no way to be sure that a fully scaled carp is a wild carp or a king carp. This does not matter until you claim to have caught a ‘double’ wildy.
1981 Country Life 12 Feb. 411/2 The kind of fish I once caught of 3lb and 4lb with immense effort and endless patience from Sussex ponds were ‘wildies’ or native carp, and not bad ones at that, even by present standards.
1987 Trout Fisherman Mar. 64/2 Vyrnwy fish, even wildies, follow with a tap, tapping pursuit until eventually, everything goes solid.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1993; most recently modified version published online December 2020).
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