feral
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Definition
adj (English)
1. Wild; untamed.Examples: "In this region, the wild boars can be dangerous, but (perhaps counterintuitively) the feral hogs can be even worse."; "This subject has been ably treated by several authors, and I shall, in my future work, discuss some of the checks at considerable length, more especially in regard to the feral animals of South America."; "The Guinea fowl has become thoroughly feral in Jamaica and in St. Domingo, and has diminished in size; the legs are black, whereas the legs of the aboriginal African bird are said to be grey. This small change is worth notice on account of the often-repeated statement that all feral animals invariably revert in every character to their original type."
2. Wild; untamed.Examples: "This consideration doth afford us no small light in conceiving and judging the manners and qualifications of persons, as hath been observed, that those that have impressions of grapes, or signals of vines on their bodies, are addicted to drunkenness, those who have resemblance on their bodies, or in their countenances of a boar, or any feral creature, participate in the same feral, wild and unmannerly deportment; those having any similitude of a hare, are fearful; of a fox, are cunning; of a wolf, cruel; and so of all other resemblances: and, as from these resemblances, the manners are conjectured, so likewise future events, and fortune good or bad, as shall be noted in due place. Nature is strange in many of her operations; but this is most certain, the party retains the qualities of that animal or thing to which he hath a resemblance."; "Palmistry . . .The figure of a semicircle in the quadrangle of the hand, notes a feral shedder of human blood, an implacable merciless spirit.... Little puncts disorderly in the natural line, shew the worst of manners, and a feral beast-like nature."
3. Wild; untamed.Examples: "Miners fans have been going absolutely feral over you, [and] you're also disgustingly talented. People want you to play for them! You had Canadians bitching about you being American born the first time you played for Team USA."Internet
4. Wild; untamed.Examples: "Ooh cool, I also have a feral wolf fursona!"Antonyms: anthro, furrynot-comparableslang
noun (English)
1. (Australia, colloquial) A contemptible young person, a lout, a person who behaves wildly.Australiacolloquial
2. (Australia, colloquial) A person who has isolated themselves from the outside world; one living an alternative lifestyle.Examples: "The intolerance which was directed towards us during the early years has now shifted to ‘the ferals’ who embrace a new version of nonconformist behaviour that even some of us in their parent′s generation — the Aquarian settlers — don′t like. The ferals are the scapegoats for the drug problems here, and are highly visible since many of them have nowhere to live."; "A pod of ferals was moving towards the exit, a half-dozen soap-shy, low-tech, bush-dwelling hippies."; "It′s the rootlessness of the ferals that people don′t seem to trust; their claims of connectedness to all wild places touches a nerve. Even residents of Maydena who want to see the Florentine protected dislike the ratbags′ itinerancy."Australiacolloquial
3. (furry fandom) A furry character in art or literature which has the appearance of a regular animal (typically quadrupedal), that may or may not be able to communicate with humans or "anthros".Examples: "The story is about a group of ferals which have to explore the ruins of society after the humans die out."Antonyms: anthroslang
Definition source: Wiktionary