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wid

English

Etymology

Variant of with.

Pronunciation

  • enPR: w?d, IPA(key): /w?d/
  • Rhymes: -?d

Preposition

wid

  1. (regional) Pronunciation spelling of with.
    • 1893, Stephen Crane, Maggie: A Girl of the Streets [1]
      “An’ wid all d’ bringin’ up she had, how could she?” moaningly she asked of her son. “Wid all d’ talkin’ wid her I did an’ d’ t’ings I tol’ her to remember. When a girl is bringed up d’ way I bringed up Maggie, how kin she go teh d’ devil?”
    • 1922, Eugene O'Neill, The Hairy Ape, [2]
      Oh, there was fine beautiful ships them days—clippers wid tall masts touching the sky—fine strong men in them—men that was sons of the sea as if ’twas the mother that bore them.
    • 1940, Shirley Graham, “It’s Morning,” in Black Female Playwrights, Kathy A Perkins ed. [3]
      Cissie. But, when da saints ob God go marchin’ home
      Mah gal will sing! Wid all da pure, bright stars,
      Tuhgedder wid da mawnin’ stars—She’ll sing!

Related terms

  • See with

Anagrams

  • D.W.I., DWI, IWD, WDI, dwi-

Belizean Creole

Alternative forms

  • wit

Preposition

wid

  1. with

References

  • Crosbie, Paul, ed. (2007), Kriol-Inglish Dikshineri: English-Kriol Dictionary. Belize City: Belize Kriol Project, p. 372.

Old English

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *w?daz. Cognate with Old Frisian w?d, Old Saxon w?do and Old Dutch w?do, Old High German w?t, Old Norse víðr.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /wi?d/

Adjective

w?d

  1. wide, far

Declension

Derived terms

  • w?ds?þ

Descendants

  • Middle English: wid, wyd
    • English: wide
    • Scots: wid, wyd

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wild

English

Pronunciation

  • enPR: w?ld, IPA(key): /wa?ld/
  • Rhymes: -a?ld

Etymology 1

From Middle English wild, wilde, from Old English wilde, from Proto-West Germanic *wilþ?, from Proto-Germanic *wilþijaz, from Proto-Indo-European *wel- (hair, wool, grass, ear (of corn), forest).

Adjective

wild (comparative wilder, superlative wildest)

  1. Untamed; not domesticated; specifically, in an unbroken line of undomesticated animals (as opposed to feral, referring to undomesticated animals whose ancestors were domesticated).
    Antonym: tame
  2. From or relating to wild creatures.
  3. Unrestrained or uninhibited.
  4. Raucous, unruly, or licentious.
  5. (electrical) Of unregulated and varying frequency.
  6. Visibly and overtly anxious; frantic.
  7. Furious; very angry.
  8. Disheveled, tangled, or untidy.
  9. Enthusiastic.
  10. Inaccurate.
  11. Exposed to the wind and sea; unsheltered.
  12. (nautical) Hard to steer; said of a vessel.
  13. (mathematics, of a knot) Not capable of being represented as a finite closed polygonal chain.
    Antonym: tame
  14. (slang) Amazing, awesome, unbelievable.
  15. Able to stand in for others, e.g. a card in games, or a text character in computer pattern matching.
    • 2009, Leonardo Vanneschi, Steven Gustafson, Alberto Moraglio, Genetic Programming: 12th European Conference
      We define a pattern as a valid GP subtree that might contain wild characters [i.e. wildcards] in any of its nodes.
Derived terms
Translations

Adverb

wild (comparative more wild, superlative most wild)

  1. Inaccurately; not on target.

Noun

wild (plural wilds)

  1. The undomesticated state of a wild animal
  2. (chiefly in the plural) a wilderness
    • 1730–1774, Oliver Goldsmith, Introductory to Switzerland
      Thus every good his native wilds impart
      Imprints the patriot passion on his heart;
      And e’en those ills that round his mansion rise
      Enhance the bliss his scanty funds supplies.

Verb

wild (third-person singular simple present wilds, present participle wilding, simple past and past participle wilded)

  1. (intransitive, slang) To commit random acts of assault, robbery, and rape in an urban setting, especially as a gang.
    • 1989, David E. Pitt, Jogger's Attackers Terrorized at Least 9 in 2 Hours, New York Times (April 22, 1989), page 1:
      ...Chief of Detectives Robert Colangelo, who said the attacks appeared unrelated to money, race, drugs, or alcohol, said that some of the 20 youths brought in for questioning has told investigators that the crime spree was the product of a pastime called "wilding".
      "It's not a term that we in the police had heard before," the chief said, noting that the police were unaware of any similar incident in the park recently. "They just said, 'We were going wilding.' In my mind at this point, it implies that they were going to raise hell."...
    • 1999, Busta Rhymes (Trevor Taheim Smith, Jr.), Iz They Wildin Wit Us? (song)
      Now is they wildin with us / And getting rowdy with us.

Etymology 2

Noun

wild (plural wilds)

  1. Alternative form of weald

Afrikaans

Etymology

From Middle Dutch wilt, from Dutch wild, from Old Dutch *wildi, from Proto-Germanic *wilþijaz.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /v?lt/

Adjective

wild (attributive wilde, comparative wilder, superlative wildste)

  1. wild

Dutch

Etymology

From Middle Dutch wilt, from Old Dutch wildi, from Proto-West Germanic *wilþ?, from Proto-Germanic *wilþijaz.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /??lt/
  • Hyphenation: wild
  • Rhymes: -?lt
  • Homophone: wilt

Adjective

wild (comparative wilder, superlative wildst)

  1. wild

Inflection

Derived terms

  • wildebras
  • wildplassen
  • wildplukken
  • wildvreemd

Descendants

  • Afrikaans: wild

Noun

wild n (uncountable)

  1. game (food; animals hunted for meat)
  2. wildlife
  3. wilderness

Derived terms

  • jachtwild
  • wildwissel

Descendants

  • Afrikaans: wild

Anagrams

  • lidw.

German

Etymology

From Middle High German wilde, from Old High German wildi, from Proto-West Germanic *wilþ?. Compare Dutch wild, English wild, Danish vild.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /v?lt/

Adjective

wild (comparative wilder, superlative am wildesten)

  1. wild
  2. (obsolete) strange
    Synonym: fremd

Declension

Derived terms

  • halb so wild
  • wilde Ehe
  • wildern
  • wildfremd
  • Wildheit

Related terms

  • Wildente, Wildfang, Wildgans, Wildhengst, Wildlachs, Wildschwein

Further reading

  • “wild” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon
  • “wild” in Deutsches Wörterbuch von Jacob und Wilhelm Grimm, 16 vols., Leipzig 1854–1961.
  • “wild” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
  • “wild” in Duden online

Hunsrik

Etymology

From Central Franconian weld

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /vilt/

Adjective

wild (comparative wilder, superlative wildest)

  1. wild

Declension

Further reading

  • Online Hunsrik Dictionary

Low German

Etymology

From Middle Low German wilde, from Old Saxon wildi, from Proto-West Germanic *wilþ?, from Proto-Germanic *wilþijaz.

Compare English, Dutch and German wild, West Frisian wyld, Danish vild.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /w?lt/

Adjective

wild (comparative willer, superlative willst)

  1. wild

Declension


Maltese

Alternative forms

  • weld

Etymology

From Arabic ?????? (walad).

Pronunciation

Noun

wild m (plural ulied)

  1. offspring

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