a. [f. WILD a. + -ISH1.] Somewhat wild; inclining to wildness.
1714. Lond. Gaz., No. 5218/3. A Young Man about 22 Years of Age,… a wildish Look.
1740. Richardson, Pamela (1824), I. i. 18. He was once thought to be wildish; but he is now the best of gentlemen, I think.
1796. Plain Sense (ed. 2), III. 102. A wildish heath, which was skirted by a thick wood.
1803. Wordsw., Stopping Westward, 2. ’Twould be a wildish destiny If we, who thus together roam In a strange Land, and far from home, Were in this place the guests of Chance.
1858. Carlyle, Fredk. Gt., VIII. v. (1872), III. 39. Prince answers as wildish young fellows will, quizzing my grave self.
1888. ‘R. Boldrewood,’ Robbery under Arms, vii. She could frighten a wildish cow.
