Brewer's: Savage

(2 syl.). One who lives in a wood (Greek, hule, a forest; Latin, silva; Spanish, salvage; Italian, selvaggio; French, sauvage).

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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