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wildling

[ wahyld-ling ]

noun

  1. a wild plant, flower, or animal.


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Word History and Origins

Origin of wildling1

First recorded in 1830–40; wild + -ling 1

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Example Sentences

As he rode away, the redheaded wildling filled her lover with three arrows, sparing his life.

Ygritte, the red-headed wildling archer who once loved (and lost) Jon Snow, has breached the walls of Castle Black.

So at the end of the episode, he sets out to kill Mance Rayder and, by killing him, to divide the wildling army.

But after his wildling girlfriend Gilly reappears at the gate, he begins to grow up.

Yuri Kolokolnikov as Styr, Magnar of Thenn Styr, the Magnar of Thenn, is the leader of the Thenn and a wildling.

Where homes the forest-haunting doe, where roams the wildling boar?

Moreover, the child was a wildling, like himself, and they were of the same mind in hating all the gossips of the Faubourg.

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