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wild-headed

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[wahyld-hed-id] / ˈwaɪldˈhɛd ɪd /

adjective

  1. given to wild or exorbitant ideas.


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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

More than one wild-headed student of William Law has told me what a blessing they have got from that great man’s teaching on the subject of controversy. 

From Bunyan Characters (2nd Series) by Alexander Whyte

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

Hillars was a wild-headed fellow, and, if at liberty, was not incapable of creating a disturbance.

From Arms and the Woman by Harold MacGrath

"Goodness sakes! you don't expect me t' ride after that wild-headed critter, do you?"

From Prairie Folks by Hamlin Garland

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