wildish

American  

[wahyl-dish] / ˈwaɪl dɪʃ /

adjective

1. somewhat wild.

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Etymology

Origin of wildish

First recorded in 1705–15; wild + -ish ¹

Example Sentences

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 Webb, Archibald

He was a red-haired Irishman with teeth wide apart and wildish blue eyes, who had the reputation of moving more towns than any other one man.

From The Conquest The Story of a Negro Pioneer by Micheaux, Oscar

Nourishment for much wildish speculation, in fact, can be got by considering what the world's literature would be, had its authors restricted themselves, as do we Americans so sedulously—and unavoidably—to writing of contemporaneous happenings.

From The Certain Hour by Cabell, James Branch

Now that he came to think of it, Australia in the 'seventies was a wildish sort of place—in some parts at any rate.

From The Happy Adventurers by Middleton, Lydia Miller