ferine
Pronunciation
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Pronunciation
- IPA: /ˈfɪəɹaɪn/
ferine
- (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) . . .
- 1749, Henry Fielding, Tom Jones, Folio Society 1973, p. 162:
- French: feral
- Italian: ferino
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