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WILD MAN
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A person who is not socialized
Synonyms:
feral man; wild man
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("wild man" is a kind of...):
primitive; primitive person (a person who belongs to an early stage of civilization)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "wild man"):
ape-man (a person assumed to have been raised by apes)
wolf boy (a male person assumed to have been raised by wolves)
Context examples:
When they could see to the bottom there lay a wild man whose body was brown like rusty iron, and whose hair hung over his face down to his knees.
(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)
Then the wild man went back into the forest, and it was not long before a stable-boy came out of it, who led a horse that snorted with its nostrils, and could hardly be restrained, and behind them followed a great troop of warriors entirely equipped in iron, and their swords flashed in the sun.
(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)
Thereupon the wild man appeared immediately, and said: “What do you desire?” “I want a strong steed, for I am going to the wars.” “That you shall have, and still more than you ask for.”
(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)
When the wild man had once more reached the dark forest, he took the boy down from his shoulder, and said to him: You will never see your father and mother again, but I will keep you with me, for you have set me free, and I have compassion on you.
(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)
He went up to the youth, embraced him and said: “I am Iron Hans, and was by enchantment a wild man, but you have set me free; all the treasures which I possess, shall be your property.”
(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)
There was great astonishment over the wild man; the king, however, had him put in an iron cage in his courtyard, and forbade the door to be opened on pain of death, and the queen herself was to take the key into her keeping.
(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)
