wilde
Meanings
adj
- Obsolete spelling of wild.
name
- A surname from Middle English.
- Ellipsis of Oscar Wilde, Irish author, playwright, and poet (1845–1900), whose contemporary literary success, notably A Picture of Dorian Gray, was eventually soured by a gross indecency trial that became a cause célèbre.
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