English Explanatory Dictionary

Mowgli syndrome

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. The condition of a feral child.

Word forms

Mowgli syndrome

Etymology

After Mowgli, the fictional protagonist of Rudyard Kipling's The Jungle Book (1894), who was raised by wolves.

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