Definitions
Rapidly spreading uncontrolled fire, especially across open land.
Word origin
Inherited from Middle English wilde fyr, wilde fire, wylde fyre, from Old English wilde fȳr. By surface analysis, wild + fire.
Used in a sentence
““It was my own personal watch and I wanted to change the face,” she said in an interview during a recent business trip to New York. “I started wearing it, and it was wildfire — everybody wanted one.””
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
Used as a crossword answer2 curated clues
01“Uncontrolled blaze”8 letters
02“Rapidly spreading blaze”8 letters
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