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English
[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]From Middle English wilding, wylding, wyldyng (“grass, straw, or the stems of wild plants”), equivalent to wild + -ing.
Noun
[edit]wilding (plural wildings)
- A wild apple or apple tree.
- Any plant that grows wild; a wildflower, etc.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto VII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
- Oft from the forrest wildings he did bring, / Whose sides empurpled were with smiling red […]
- 1697, Virgil, “Pastoral 1”, in John Dryden, transl., The Works of Virgil: Containing His Pastorals, Georgics, and Æneis. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC:
- Ten ruddy wildings in the wood I found.
- 1824–1829, Walter Savage Landor, Imaginary Conversations of Literary Men and Statesmen, volumes (please specify |volume=I to V), London: […] Taylor and Hessey, […]:
- The fruit of the tree […] is small, of little juice, and bad quality. I presume it to be a wilding.
Etymology 2
[edit]Verb
[edit]wilding
- present participle and gerund of wild
- 2012, Stephen King, 11/22/63, page 804:
- Those boys are bad enough, and soon they'll start their wilding.
Adjective
[edit]wilding (not comparable)
- (poetic) Not cultivated or tame; wild.
- a. 1844, William Cullen Bryant, The Gladness of Nature:
- The wilding bee hums merrily by.
- 1859, Alfred Tennyson, “Enid”, in Idylls of the King, London: Edward Moxon & Co., […], →OCLC, page 17:
- And here had fall'n a great part of a tower, / Whole, like a crag that tumbles from the cliff, / And like a crag was gay with wilding flowers: […]
- a. 1844, William Cullen Bryant, The Gladness of Nature:
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