wild-headed
Americanadjective
Example Sentences
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Socially, as the rather wild-headed daughter of an impoverished and obscure Earl, she could do but little.
From The Mountebank by William John Locke
"My son, an it please your Majesty, so far as he is concerned, shall not direct my doings," said the earl, "nor any wild-headed young man of them all."
From The Fortunes of Nigel by Sir Walter Scott
"Goodness sakes! you don't expect me t' ride after that wild-headed critter, do you?"
From Prairie Folks by Hamlin Garland
The leading young man of this comedy now under notice is represented as "a wild-headed gentleman," and revealed as an abject ruffian of unredeemed and irredeemable rascality.
From The Age of Shakespeare by Algernon Charles Swinburne
Here's that wild-headed Monty took an' scampered off just as I was takin' this batch of punkin pies out the oven.
From The Brass Bound Box by Diantha W. Horne
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