单词 | wild man |
释义 | wild mann. 1. A man who is wild, in various senses of the adjective. a. A man of rough, savage, fierce, or unruly nature or character (cf. wild adj. 6, 7). ΘΚΠ the mind > goodness and badness > harmfulness > savagery > savage person > [noun] wolfa900 liona1225 beastc1225 wild manc1290 tiger?a1513 Turk1536 club-fist1575 scourgemutton1581 wolver1593 vulture1605 savage1609 inhuman1653 brutal1655 Tartar1669 hyena1671 dragoon1712 Huna1744 panther1822 the world > action or operation > behaviour > bad behaviour > fierceness > [noun] > person or being wolfa900 liona1225 wild manc1290 boar1297 fell1340 tiger?a1513 centaur1565 wolver1593 to speak bandog and Bedlam1600 vulture1605 killbuck1612 man-tigera1652 Tartar1669 hyena1671 dragoon1712 vampire1741 Huna1744 panther1868 c1290 S. Eng. Leg. 47/17 Wylde Men ne louede he nouȝt, þat rechelese weren of þouȝte. 13.. R. Glouc. Chron. (Rolls) App. H. 136 A wuilde men [read man] fol bolde Þe king sende in to þe court to þe heiȝe men of þe londe. c1480 (a1400) St. Matthew 402 in W. M. Metcalfe Legends Saints Sc. Dial. (1896) I. 201 Þare-for be ȝe of stedfast wil, þocht wyld men wil ȝov do Il. 1513 Inventory in State Papers Henry VIII (P.R.O.: SP 1/4) f. 36 A Seler and a tester of Redsay and therein a wilde man Ryding on a horse. 1630 T. Randolph Aristippus 7 I am the Wilde-man, and I will be wilde: is that an age to be in a mans right wits? a1639 W. Whately Prototypes (1640) i. xvi. 161 A wild man lives as he lists himselfe. b. (wild adj. 5) An uncivilized or primitive man; a man reverted to a primitive state; = savage n.1 3a. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > customs, values, and civilization > civilization > lack of civilization > [noun] > uncivilized person wild mana1400 woodwose?a1400 savaginec1450 woodward1488 savagea1544 woodman1601 barbarian1604 woodist1613 wilding1621 brutigenist1631 catamountaina1640 Caliban1678 semi-barbarian1692 Hottentot1710 semi-savage1807 pagan1879 a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Gött.) l. 3081 Ismael..wonid þar as a wild man, In þat desert þat hight pharan. 1530 in Ancestor (1904) Oct. 181 Wolton beryth to his crest a woodwous a wylld man in his kynde vert. 1568 T. Hacket tr. A. Thevet New Found Worlde xxiv. 31 b We were well received of the Indians or wilde men of the Countrey. 1575 in Brydges Brit. Bibliogr. (1810) I. 541 To make waye in the streetes, there are certayne men apparelled lyke devells, and wylde men, with skybbs and certayne beadells. 1611 W. Adams Let. in T. Rundall Mem. Japon (1850) 37 Eight of our men..ranne from vs with the pinnesse, and (as we suppose) were eaten of the wild men. 1767 Ann. Reg., Chron. 47/1 Peter the wild man, who was taken in the Hartz Forest in Hanover. 1825 J. Neal Brother Jonathan II. 2 The wild man of North America is exceedingly unlike the wild man of every other country. c. An extremist in a political party, a profession, etc. Usually in plural. ΘΚΠ society > authority > lack of subjection > [noun] > insubordinate person > those who disregard rule or custom wild man1905 the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > exaggeration, hyperbole > [noun] > one who exaggerates > in action > and in opinion extremite1546 extremist1846 wild man1905 society > authority > rule or government > politics > party politics > groups or attitudes right to left > [noun] > extremism > extremist > collectively wild man1905 1905 D. G. Phillips Plum Tree 266 And I wished for a ‘wild man’ as the candidate for governor. 1910 H. Belloc Pongo & Bull xix. 287 The Wild Men on the Opposition side might cheer. 1923 Weekly Disp. 13 May 2 The wild men pin their faith to the Capital Levy as a vote-catcher. 1923 Daily Mail 23 July 14 All the ‘wild men’ of European music, such as Schönberg, Bartok, Prokoviev, Stravinsky, Alois Haba.., Milhaud, and Poulenc. 2. (wild adj. 1) A name for the orang-outang: also wild man of the woods (see wood n.1). ΘΚΠ the world > animals > mammals > order Primates > suborder Anthropoidea (higher primates) > [noun] > group Catarrhinae (Old World monkey) > member of superfamily Hominoidea (apes and humans) > family Pongidae (ape) > genus Pongo (orang-outang) satyra1398 orangutan1699 man of the woods1755 pongo1775 orang1778 yahooc1790 wild man1791 mias1840 red orang1840 outang1869 lesser orang-utan1903 1769 E. Bancroft Ess. Nat. Hist. Guiana 131 These animals [sc. Orang-Outang], in all the different languages of the natives, are called by names signifying a Wild Man.] 1791 W. Smellie tr. Comte de Buffon Nat. Hist. Gen. & Particular (ed. 3) VIII. 97 As there is a greater similarity between this animal and man than between those creatures which resemble him most, as the Barbary ape [etc.], the Indians are to be excused for associating him with the human species, under the denomination of orang-outang, or wild man. 1881 J. Hatton New Ceylon iii. 72 The Bornean ‘wild man’ is quite harmless. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1924; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.c1290 |
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