ferine
Pronunciation
  • IPA: /ˈfɪəɹaɪn/
Adjective

ferine

  1. (now rare) Pertaining to wild, menacing animals; feral.
    • 1749, Henry Fielding, Tom Jones, Folio Society 1973, p. 162:
      the season of rutting (an uncouth phrase, by which the vulgar denote that gentle dalliance, which in the well-wooded forest of Hampshire, passes between lovers of the ferine kind) . . .
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