wildish
Americanadjective
Etymology
Origin of wildish
Example Sentences
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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
Mind your helm, Chingatok; she’ll steer wildish when lightened.”
From The Giant of the North Pokings Round the Pole by Ballantyne, R. M. (Robert Michael)
A good family, highly connected, the Mitchells; brilliant, free-handed, great travelers; something wildish, the younger men—boys will be boys.
From Copper Streak Trail by Rhodes, Eugene Manlove
He creates a wild Spain, a wild England, a wild Wales, and in them places himself, the p. 318Gypsies, and other wildish men, and himself again.
From George Borrow The Man and His Books by Thomas, Edward
But, I say, we seem to be nearing a wildish sort of place.”
From Twice Bought by Ballantyne, R. M. (Robert Michael)
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