wildish
Americanadjective
Etymology
Origin of wildish
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Huston is a tall woman, striding confidently to the rose garden on her sprawling, wildish ranch in Three Rivers, a California town of about 2,000 residents, set in the foothills of the Sierra Nevada.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 31, 2019
Campbell had been rather a wildish sort of a chap, and getting into some scrape, had gone on board a tender, at Leith I think it was, and entered the navy.
From Will Weatherhelm The Yarn of an Old Sailor by Archibald Webb
Mr. Meadows is getting wildish; it frightens me to see such a man as him burst out like that.
From It Is Never Too Late to Mend by Charles Reade
And there is the Rotterdam packet-boat coming slowly up, very glad to get back into safe waters again, for she has had a wildish time in the North Sea.
From The Firm of Girdlestone by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
A wildish company, Martin, desperate fellows as ever roved the Main, as I do love no more than they love me.
From Black Bartlemy's Treasure by Jeffery Farnol
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