wild man

He had rescued the duchess from the very fangs of the monster, which, he assured the ladies, was neither a wolf, nor a bear, nor yet a wild man of the woods.

[H]e was a sinner, unregenerated, a wild man in her estimation, a being of quite another kind than herself.

"They're saying I'm a wild man. If I turn the trick, they'll say I'm a genius."

So said Royal Little, the mild, 50-year-old president of Textron Inc., whose unconventional production ideas have built a textile empire in less than three years.