wilde

1. obsoleteObsolete spelling of wild.

plural Wildes

1. A surname from Middle English.
   1. abbreviationellipsisEllipsis of Oscar Wilde, Irish author, playwright, and poet (1845–1900), whose contemporary literary success, notably A Picture of Dorian Gray, was eventually soured by a gross indecency trial that became a cause célèbre.

      A dread sunny day / So I meet you at the cemetry [sic] gates / Keats and Yeats on your side / While Wilde is on mine

      1986, The Smiths, “Cemetry Gates”, in The Queen is Dead