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feral child

British  

noun

  1. a neglected child who engages in lawless or anti-social behaviour

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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But, she acknowledged, perhaps that was a blessing: “Knowing me, being the feral child that I was, I would have had no restraint, and I would have been long dead.”

From New York Times ● Dec. 22, 2023

He owns it, and he’s as angry as a feral child who’s soiled himself in the sandbox.

From Salon ● Nov. 16, 2023

Such devices worked well in “Synonyms,” whose protagonist was a kind of overgrown, inattentive, feral child.

From Washington Post ● May 3, 2022

Amma as a snarling feral child explained everything — and nothing — simultaneously.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 22, 2019

ATC go out on tour to the Drum in Plymouth with Ivan and the Dogs, a tale of a feral child.

From The Guardian ● Sep. 24, 2010

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