wildish [wahyl-dish] ExamplesWord Origin adjective
- somewhat wild.
Origin of wildish First recorded in 1705–15; wild + -ish1 Examples from the Web for wildish Historical Examples of wildish
There was a wildish boy called ‘St. Ronite,’ who was one of his companions in mischief.
Nina H. Kennard
Round, wildish eyes, slightly near-sighted, completed a physiognomy essentially feline.
From the Earth to the Moon, Direct in Ninety-Seven Hours and Twenty Minutes: and a Trip Round It
Jules Verne
Everything has a quiet but wildish pastoral and sylvan look, and the bleating of sheep fills the hollow of the hills.
Recreations of Christopher North, Volume 2
John Wilson
They have a wildish gipsy look when one sees them camped in the fields, and free-and-easy manners in the village estaminets.
From Bapaume to Passchendaele, 1917
Philip Gibbs
She could frighten a wildish cow and bail up anything that would stay in a yard with her.
Thomas Alexander Browne, AKA Rolf Boldrewood