Words & TermsPeople and character
feral
A person regarded as living outside conventional society, or as wild, unruly or socially unconventional.
In a sentence
The story described him as a feral.
Where it came from
The Australian National Dictionary Centre records a distinctive Australian person-sense developing in the late twentieth century.
- Initial era
- 1950–1999
- Where used
- Australian use; no narrower regional pattern established