wildingn.¹adj.

Brit.

/ˈwʌɪldɪŋ/, U.S.

/ˈwaɪldɪŋ/

Forms: 1500s wyldyng, wyldynge, wylding(e, wildinge, 1600s wilden, 1500s– wilding.

Etymology: < wild adj. + -ing suffix³.

A. n.¹The meaning in the following quot. 1296 has not been ascertained:—

1296 Accts. Exchequer King's Remembrancer (P.R.O.: E101/5/20) m. 1 In .ij. petris de Burre emptis..et quatuor petris de Wyldyng emptis de vxore Andree Skaket.

1. A wild apple or apple-tree; a crab-apple or crab-tree.

ΘΚΠ

the world > food and drink > food > fruit and vegetables > fruit or a fruit > apple > [noun] > crab-apple

crabc1450

wilding1526

crab-apple1712

the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > particular types of fruit > [noun] > apple > crab-apple

wood-applec1000

wood crab14..

crabc1450

scrab1467

wilding1526

choke-apple1600

crab-apple1712

cherry-apple1858

Siberian crab1858

souring1866

1526 Grete Herball cclxxxii. sig. Qij/2 De macianis pomis. Wood crabbes or wyldynges.

1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 289/1 Wyldyng a sower apple, pomme de boys.

1621 T. Granger Familiar Expos. Eccles. xii. 13. 342 The wilding maketh a fairer shew then many a good apple, but by the taste.

1651 R. Child Large Let. in S. Hartlib Legacie 21 I never saw..any Apples or Peares thrive in an Hedge, unlesse Crab, or a Wilden, or some Sweeting of little worth.

1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Pastorals iii, in tr. Virgil Wks. 14 Ten ruddy Wildings in the Wood I found.

1780 in A. Young Tour Ireland i. 341 Do not press wildings 'till Candlemas.

1786 J. Abercrombie Arrangem. Plants p. xi, in Gardeners Daily Assistant Apples valued principally for Cyder. Royal wilding.

1842 J. C. Loudon Suburban Horticulturist 535 Wildings or seedling apple stocks.

2. gen. A wild plant, flower, or fruit.

ΘΚΠ

the world > plants > wild and cultivated plants > [noun] > wild

wilding1577

volunteer1657

wildling1840

escape1870

chaff-seed-

1577 B. Googe tr. C. Heresbach Foure Bks. Husbandry ii. f. 72^v The Fylbert wyll onely be graffed in the Wylding.

1586 W. Warner Albions Eng. iv. xx. 85 Wyldings, or the Seasons fruite, he did in Skrippe bestowe.

1590 E. Spenser Faerie Queene iii. vii. sig. Ii2^v Oft from the forrest wildings he did bring.

a1701 C. Sedley tr. Virgil 4th Bk. Georgics in Misc. Wks. (1702) 186 Among the Wildings..they [sc. bees] feed.

1791 W. Gilpin Remarks Forest Scenery II. 37 The wildings of the forest.

1813 W. Scott Rokeby ii. 67 Nor wilding green, nor woodland flower, Arose within its baleful bower.

1826 T. Campbell Ye Field Flowers i Ye field flowers!..wildings of Nature, I doat upon you.

1840 Cottager's Man. 14 in Libr. Useful Knowl., Husb. III The principle is to form the hedge of a double row of wildings.

1884 R. Browning Mihrab Shah in Ferishtah's Fancies 74 The wilding,..Ruffled outside at pleasure of the blast.

1892 C. E. Norton tr. Dante Divine Comedy III. xxvii. 178 Well blossoms the will in men, but the continual rain converts the true plums into wildings.

3. A wild animal. rare.

ΘΚΠ

the world > animals > by nature > [noun] > wild animal

wild deerc825

wildc1275

Satanasc1300

wild beastc1325

unbeasta1400

savage?a1425

feral1639

man-keen1652

yelper1823

wildling1841

tiger1859

rogue1872

ferine1895

wilding1897

1897 Advance (Chicago) 23 Sept. 409/3 Not a specimen of these wildings [sc. deer, turkey, and otter] can be seen now.

4. figurative (applied to a person or thing).

ΘΚΠ

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

1621 T. Granger Familiar Expos. Eccles. vii. 7. 165 These are Sathans wildings, whom he hath blinded, and so rideth them at his pleasure.

1866 G. A. Lawrence Sans Merci xiv He made professional acquaintance with two or three wildings of gentle birth.

1881 R. L. Stevenson Virginibus Puerisque 6 The air of the fireside withers out all the fine wildings of the husband's heart.

1906 Athenæum 29 Dec. 822/1 He was swayed by the wildings of his imagination and his affections.

1908 E. Wharton Hermit & Wild Woman i. iii. 17 You are not a heathen wilding, but a child of Christ.

B. adj.

1. Applied to a crab-apple or crab-tree: cf. sense A. 1.

ΘΚΠ

the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > particular types of fruit > [adjective] > of or relating to or like apples > of types of apple

wilding1538

russet1602

stire1699

Orleans1803

Worcester1877

the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > particular fruit-tree or -plant > [adjective] > of or relating to apple-tree > of particular type of apple-tree

soura1000

wilding1538

McIntosh Red1908

1538 T. Elyot Dict. Arbutus, a wyldyng tree.

1552 R. Huloet Abcedarium Anglico Latinum Wildinge aple, or crabbe, arbutum.

1575 A. Fleming tr. Virgil Bucolikes iii. 9 From a wylding tree, Ten Apples rype I sent.

1622 G. Wither Faire-virtue sig. B2 A faire weilding-tree.

1650 W. How Phytologia Britannica 73 Crab-tree, or Wilden-tree.

a1652 R. Brome Court Begger ii. i. sig. O4^v, in Five New Playes (1653) He lookes so like a wilding crab, good neither for drink nor sauce.

1665 R. Lovell Παμβοτανολογια (ed. 2) 469.

a. Of a plant (or its flower or fruit): Growing wild: = wild adj. 2. Chiefly poetic.

ΘΚΠ

the world > plants > wild and cultivated plants > [adjective] > wild or not cultivated

wildc725

untameda1340

unsownc1374

unplanteda1382

savagea1500

natural1526

self-sowed1597

self-sown1608

maiden1616

voluntary1620

spontaneous1665

uncultivated1697

wilding1697

volunteer1794

uncultured1804

agrarian1851

self-raised1852

1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Georgics iv, in tr. Virgil Wks. 130 Wilding Blooms.

1810 W. Scott Lady of Lake iv. 143 O wilding rose.

1824 J. C. Loudon Green-house Compan. i. 227 Grafted on the crab and wilding pear.

1827 J. Clare Shepherd's Cal. 84 Wilding fruit that shines upon the trees.

1895 S. R. Crockett Bog-myrtle & Peat v. iv Lo the wilding treasure Glows..in my sweetheart's gardens.

b. Of an animal: = wild adj. 1. poetic. rare.

ΘΚΠ

the world > animals > domestic animal > [adjective] > untamed

wildc725

untemeda1000

savagea1275

ramagec1300

untameda1340

untamea1382

ramageousa1398

tameless1597

unreclaimed1614

indomite1617

immansuete1656

feral1659

myall1848

wilding1853

maroon1890

undomesticated1972

1853 W. C. Bryant Poems (new ed.) 174 The wilding bee hums merrily by.

a. figurative. Developed without culture or training, like a wild plant; natural, native.

ΘΚΠ

the world > action or operation > behaviour > unaffectedness or naturalness > [adjective] > not contrived or artificial

unartificial1603

artless1622

unarted1628

inartificial1656

unartful1670

unaffected1712

unstrained1748

unmannered1804

unschooled1815

wilding1884

1884 J. A. Symonds Shakspere's Predecessors (1900) vii. 199 It was too late now for critics..to resist that growth of wilding art.

b. Running wild; extravagant.

ΚΠ

1903 T. Hardy Dynasts I. i. iii. 20 Must the House listen to such wilding words As this proposal?

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1924; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

wildingn.²

Brit.

/ˈwʌɪldɪŋ/, U.S.

/ˈwaɪldɪŋ/

Etymology: < wild adj. + -ing suffix¹ (see also quot. 1990²).

U.S. slang.

The action or practice by a gang of youths of going on a protracted and violent rampage in a street, park, or other public place, attacking or mugging people at random along the way; also, an instance of this.

ΘΚΠ

the world > action or operation > behaviour > bad behaviour > violent behaviour > [noun] > reckless or riotous

outragec1300

outraya1425

reeling1487

stroke and strifec1510

rampage1860

rampageousness1883

wilding1989

society > authority > lack of subjection > unruliness > disorder or riot > [noun] > action or behaviour of gangs of hooligans

sweating1785

mohawking1825

Mohockism1855

hoodlumism1872

hoodluming1892

hooliganism1898

Teddy-boyism1959

bovver1969

wilding1989

1989 N.Y. Times 22 Apr. 1/1 Some of the 20 youths brought in for questioning had told investigators that the crime spree was the product of a pastime called ‘wilding’. ‘It's not a term that we in the police had heard before,’ the chief said.

1989 Austin (Texas) Amer.-Statesman 29 Apr. c4/3 Seven teen-agers are now charged as members of the gang who brutalized the woman during a night of ‘wilding’.

1990 N.Y. Times 13 Jan. 27/1 There has been little response by the city government to the wide-spread concern over wilding in general.

1990 Sunday Correspondent 17 June 14/8 Because one of the defendants muttered something about Wild Thing—a rap version of an ancient hit song—there was a brief spasm of excitement about a possible new phenomenon known as ‘Wilding’.

1991 Time 17 June 66/1 Do the Right Thing had critics predicting that the film would foment wildings by blacks against whites.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1993; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

单词	wilding
释义	wildingn.¹adj. Brit. /ˈwʌɪldɪŋ/, U.S. /ˈwaɪldɪŋ/ Forms: 1500s wyldyng, wyldynge, wylding(e, wildinge, 1600s wilden, 1500s– wilding. Etymology: < wild adj. + -ing suffix³. A. n.¹The meaning in the following quot. 1296 has not been ascertained:— 1296 Accts. Exchequer King's Remembrancer (P.R.O.: E101/5/20) m. 1 In .ij. petris de Burre emptis..et quatuor petris de Wyldyng emptis de vxore Andree Skaket. 1. A wild apple or apple-tree; a crab-apple or crab-tree. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > fruit and vegetables > fruit or a fruit > apple > [noun] > crab-apple crabc1450 wilding1526 crab-apple1712 the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > particular types of fruit > [noun] > apple > crab-apple wood-applec1000 wood crab14.. crabc1450 scrab1467 wilding1526 choke-apple1600 crab-apple1712 cherry-apple1858 Siberian crab1858 souring1866 1526 Grete Herball cclxxxii. sig. Qij/2 De macianis pomis. Wood crabbes or wyldynges. 1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 289/1 Wyldyng a sower apple, pomme de boys. 1621 T. Granger Familiar Expos. Eccles. xii. 13. 342 The wilding maketh a fairer shew then many a good apple, but by the taste. 1651 R. Child Large Let. in S. Hartlib Legacie 21 I never saw..any Apples or Peares thrive in an Hedge, unlesse Crab, or a Wilden, or some Sweeting of little worth. 1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Pastorals iii, in tr. Virgil Wks. 14 Ten ruddy Wildings in the Wood I found. 1780 in A. Young Tour Ireland i. 341 Do not press wildings 'till Candlemas. 1786 J. Abercrombie Arrangem. Plants p. xi, in Gardeners Daily Assistant Apples valued principally for Cyder. Royal wilding. 1842 J. C. Loudon Suburban Horticulturist 535 Wildings or seedling apple stocks. 2. gen. A wild plant, flower, or fruit. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > wild and cultivated plants > [noun] > wild wilding1577 volunteer1657 wildling1840 escape1870 chaff-seed- 1577 B. Googe tr. C. Heresbach Foure Bks. Husbandry ii. f. 72^v The Fylbert wyll onely be graffed in the Wylding. 1586 W. Warner Albions Eng. iv. xx. 85 Wyldings, or the Seasons fruite, he did in Skrippe bestowe. 1590 E. Spenser Faerie Queene iii. vii. sig. Ii2^v Oft from the forrest wildings he did bring. a1701 C. Sedley tr. Virgil 4th Bk. Georgics in Misc. Wks. (1702) 186 Among the Wildings..they [sc. bees] feed. 1791 W. Gilpin Remarks Forest Scenery II. 37 The wildings of the forest. 1813 W. Scott Rokeby ii. 67 Nor wilding green, nor woodland flower, Arose within its baleful bower. 1826 T. Campbell Ye Field Flowers i Ye field flowers!..wildings of Nature, I doat upon you. 1840 Cottager's Man. 14 in Libr. Useful Knowl., Husb. III The principle is to form the hedge of a double row of wildings. 1884 R. Browning Mihrab Shah in Ferishtah's Fancies 74 The wilding,..Ruffled outside at pleasure of the blast. 1892 C. E. Norton tr. Dante Divine Comedy III. xxvii. 178 Well blossoms the will in men, but the continual rain converts the true plums into wildings. 3. A wild animal. rare. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > by nature > [noun] > wild animal wild deerc825 wildc1275 Satanasc1300 wild beastc1325 unbeasta1400 savage?a1425 feral1639 man-keen1652 yelper1823 wildling1841 tiger1859 rogue1872 ferine1895 wilding1897 1897 Advance (Chicago) 23 Sept. 409/3 Not a specimen of these wildings [sc. deer, turkey, and otter] can be seen now. 4. figurative (applied to a person or thing). ΘΚΠ 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 1621 T. Granger Familiar Expos. Eccles. vii. 7. 165 These are Sathans wildings, whom he hath blinded, and so rideth them at his pleasure. 1866 G. A. Lawrence Sans Merci xiv He made professional acquaintance with two or three wildings of gentle birth. 1881 R. L. Stevenson Virginibus Puerisque 6 The air of the fireside withers out all the fine wildings of the husband's heart. 1906 Athenæum 29 Dec. 822/1 He was swayed by the wildings of his imagination and his affections. 1908 E. Wharton Hermit & Wild Woman i. iii. 17 You are not a heathen wilding, but a child of Christ. B. adj. 1. Applied to a crab-apple or crab-tree: cf. sense A. 1. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > particular types of fruit > [adjective] > of or relating to or like apples > of types of apple wilding1538 russet1602 stire1699 Orleans1803 Worcester1877 the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > particular fruit-tree or -plant > [adjective] > of or relating to apple-tree > of particular type of apple-tree soura1000 wilding1538 McIntosh Red1908 1538 T. Elyot Dict. Arbutus, a wyldyng tree. 1552 R. Huloet Abcedarium Anglico Latinum Wildinge aple, or crabbe, arbutum. 1575 A. Fleming tr. Virgil Bucolikes iii. 9 From a wylding tree, Ten Apples rype I sent. 1622 G. Wither Faire-virtue sig. B2 A faire weilding-tree. 1650 W. How Phytologia Britannica 73 Crab-tree, or Wilden-tree. a1652 R. Brome Court Begger ii. i. sig. O4^v, in Five New Playes (1653) He lookes so like a wilding crab, good neither for drink nor sauce. 1665 R. Lovell Παμβοτανολογια (ed. 2) 469. 2. a. Of a plant (or its flower or fruit): Growing wild: = wild adj. 2. Chiefly poetic. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > wild and cultivated plants > [adjective] > wild or not cultivated wildc725 untameda1340 unsownc1374 unplanteda1382 savagea1500 natural1526 self-sowed1597 self-sown1608 maiden1616 voluntary1620 spontaneous1665 uncultivated1697 wilding1697 volunteer1794 uncultured1804 agrarian1851 self-raised1852 1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Georgics iv, in tr. Virgil Wks. 130 Wilding Blooms. View more context for this quotation 1810 W. Scott Lady of Lake iv. 143 O wilding rose. 1824 J. C. Loudon Green-house Compan. i. 227 Grafted on the crab and wilding pear. 1827 J. Clare Shepherd's Cal. 84 Wilding fruit that shines upon the trees. 1895 S. R. Crockett Bog-myrtle & Peat v. iv Lo the wilding treasure Glows..in my sweetheart's gardens. b. Of an animal: = wild adj. 1. poetic. rare. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > domestic animal > [adjective] > untamed wildc725 untemeda1000 savagea1275 ramagec1300 untameda1340 untamea1382 ramageousa1398 tameless1597 unreclaimed1614 indomite1617 immansuete1656 feral1659 myall1848 wilding1853 maroon1890 undomesticated1972 1853 W. C. Bryant Poems (new ed.) 174 The wilding bee hums merrily by. 3. a. figurative. Developed without culture or training, like a wild plant; natural, native. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > behaviour > unaffectedness or naturalness > [adjective] > not contrived or artificial unartificial1603 artless1622 unarted1628 inartificial1656 unartful1670 unaffected1712 unstrained1748 unmannered1804 unschooled1815 wilding1884 1884 J. A. Symonds Shakspere's Predecessors (1900) vii. 199 It was too late now for critics..to resist that growth of wilding art. b. Running wild; extravagant. ΚΠ 1903 T. Hardy Dynasts I. i. iii. 20 Must the House listen to such wilding words As this proposal? This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1924; most recently modified version published online June 2022). wildingn.² Brit. /ˈwʌɪldɪŋ/, U.S. /ˈwaɪldɪŋ/ Etymology: < wild adj. + -ing suffix¹ (see also quot. 1990²). U.S. slang. The action or practice by a gang of youths of going on a protracted and violent rampage in a street, park, or other public place, attacking or mugging people at random along the way; also, an instance of this. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > behaviour > bad behaviour > violent behaviour > [noun] > reckless or riotous outragec1300 outraya1425 reeling1487 stroke and strifec1510 rampage1860 rampageousness1883 wilding1989 society > authority > lack of subjection > unruliness > disorder or riot > [noun] > action or behaviour of gangs of hooligans sweating1785 mohawking1825 Mohockism1855 hoodlumism1872 hoodluming1892 hooliganism1898 Teddy-boyism1959 bovver1969 wilding1989 1989 N.Y. Times 22 Apr. 1/1 Some of the 20 youths brought in for questioning had told investigators that the crime spree was the product of a pastime called ‘wilding’. ‘It's not a term that we in the police had heard before,’ the chief said. 1989 Austin (Texas) Amer.-Statesman 29 Apr. c4/3 Seven teen-agers are now charged as members of the gang who brutalized the woman during a night of ‘wilding’. 1990 N.Y. Times 13 Jan. 27/1 There has been little response by the city government to the wide-spread concern over wilding in general. 1990 Sunday Correspondent 17 June 14/8 Because one of the defendants muttered something about Wild Thing—a rap version of an ancient hit song—there was a brief spasm of excitement about a possible new phenomenon known as ‘Wilding’. 1991 Time 17 June 66/1 Do the Right Thing had critics predicting that the film would foment wildings by blacks against whites. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1993; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < n.¹adj.1526n.²1989
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