wild and woolly

English

Adjective

wild and woolly (comparative wilder and woollier, superlative wildest and woolliest)

1. (informal) Uncultured and without laws.

Translations

Translations

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 粗暴 (zh) (cūbào)

• Finnish: kesytön (fi)

Further reading

• “wild and woolly”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.
• “wild and woolly”, in Collins English Dictionary.
• “wild and woolly”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.