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Definitioner
Adjektiv
- Wild, untamed, especially of domesticated animals having returned to the wild.
- (of a person) Contemptible, unruly, misbehaved.
Substantiv
- A domesticated animal that has returned to the wild; an animal, particularly a domesticated animal, living independently of humans.
- (Australia, colloquial) A contemptible young person, a lout, a person who behaves wildly.
- (Australia, colloquial) A person who has isolated themselves from the outside world; one living an alternative lifestyle.
Exempel
- Although it is not difficult to induce domestic pigeons to nest in boxes fixed to trees, London′s ferals are not yet acclimatized to arboreal holes.
- Traffic, abuse, inhumane traps, and accidental poisoning are other hazards ferals must face.[...]In England one gamekeeper claimed to have killed over three hundred ferals, while another brought home pelts to his wife so that she could design rugs from cat skins as a source of secondary income.
- You trap ferals, neuter them, and give them their rabies shot. Maybe distemper.
- If you′ve ever put a saucer of milk out for a hard-luck kitty, or if you′re spending your lunch hour sharing sandwiches with the ferals near your office, this is the chapter for you.
- The intolerance which was directed towards us during the early years has now shifted to ‘the ferals’ who embrace a new version of nonconformist behaviour that even some of us in their parent′s generation — the Aquarian settlers — don′t like. The ferals are the scapegoats for the drug problems here, and are highly visible since many of them have nowhere to live.
- A pod of ferals was moving towards the exit, a half-dozen soap-shy, low-tech, bush-dwelling hippies.
- It′s the rootlessness of the ferals that people don′t seem to trust; their claims of connectedness to all wild places touches a nerve. Even residents of Maydena who want to see the Florentine protected dislike the ratbags′ itinerancy.
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