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Wilding vs Hilding - What's the difference?

wilding | hilding |

As a noun wilding

is a wild apple or apple-tree or wilding can be (usually|in the plural|philately) any british stamp with the image of queen elizabeth ii, based on a portrait by dorothy wilding.

As a verb wilding

is .

As an adjective wilding

is (poetic) not tame or cultivated; wild.

As a proper noun hilding is

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wilding

English

Etymology 1

From .

Noun

(en noun)
  • A wild apple or apple-tree.
  • Any plant that grows wild; a wildflower, wild apple, etc.
  • * 1590 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , III.vii:
    • Oft from the forrest wildings he did bring, / Whose sides empurpled were with smiling red [...].
  • * Dryden
    • Ten ruddy wildings in the wood I found.
  • * Landor
    • The fruit of the tree is small, of little juice, and bad quality. I presume it to be a wilding .

    Verb

    (head)

    • Adjective

    (-)
  • (poetic) Not tame or cultivated; wild.
    • Wilding flowers. — Tennyson.
    The wilding bee hums merrily by. — Bryant.

    Etymology 2

    From

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (usually, in the plural, philately) Any British stamp with the image of Queen Elizabeth II, based on a portrait by Dorothy Wilding.

    • hilding

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • a wretch, a contemptible person
  • :* 1985': ‘God, eh? Which god? You whore, you loathsome '''hilding .’ — Anthony Burgess, ''Kingdom of the Wicked