The phrase "a feral boy" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a boy who has lived in the wild or has not been socialized properly, often exhibiting wild or untamed behavior.
Example: "The story follows a feral boy who was raised by wolves and struggles to adapt to human society."
Alternatives: "wild child" or "untamed youth".
A feral boy with a thing for eating hearts?
In addition, Truffaut dedicated "The Wild Child" (1970), in which the director played a doctor who adopts a feral boy, to Mr. Léaud.
In the summer of 1998, a feral boy named Ivan Mishukov was discovered on the streets of Reutova, near Moscow, living with a pack of dogs.
A feral boy called Matteo lives on the roof of the law courts, and the drama of his encounter with Sophie and their subsequent partnership is thrilling.
It was impossible to guess how old he was, since although his face was pockmarked and seamed by the weather, his narrow black eyes were filled with an impudent glee that gave him the look of a feral boy: an Italian Mowgli, perhaps.
She's the kind of parent capable of terrifying new mothers who are grappling with their identity, yet it's hard not to sympathize with her plight: just weeks after a vaccination, her son started transforming into an almost feral boy who rubs his feces on the furniture.
Far from becoming a legendary exemplar of freedom, loyalty, and independence, Billy the Kid in this movie is an overgrown feral boy, and the Old West he moves through is a haunted, absurd landscape.
(The music box Max gave the feral boy in film two reappears, for example, and Mr Miller has shrewdly re-engaged Hugh Keays-Byrne, the bear-headed, glittering-eyed actor who played Toecutter in film one as his Immortan Joe).
For virtually all of American political history, the strong female contestant has been cast not as the player but the rules keeper, the purse-lipped killjoy who passes strait-laced judgment on feral boy fun.
Meanwhile, here too were our young friends – bored Ian from IT and feral boy Grant, the two of them catching up with sweary Welsh girl Becky in a warehouse swarming with MI5 swat men, two frantic scientists (one of them played by Kevin Eldon having, I'm afraid, the funniest heart attack in TV history) – and the great Arby, newly humanised and, better late than never, a force for good.
Based on a novel by the Congolese writer Emmanuel Dongala, the story follows a rebel militia of feral boys as they advance to overthrow a government stronghold.
