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coltish, a.|ˈkəʊltɪʃ|
[f. colt n. + -ish.]
1. Of, pertaining to, or resembling a colt or colts.
1542Udall Erasm. Apoph. 9 b, In horses..such as been coltish or ful of courage, etc. 1602Life T. Cromwell iii. i. 95 Whether [the horses in this country] are not coltish, given much to kicking or no. 1620Hic Mulier (title), A Medicine to cure the Coltish Disease of the Staggers. 1833Sir C. Bell Hand 305 The coltish wildness of expression. 1886Stevenson Silverado Sq. 67 Although as strong as a horse, he looked..only leggy, coltish.
2. transf.
a. Wild, frisky, untrained.
†b. Lustful, salacious, wanton. Obs.
c1386Chaucer Merch. T. 603 He was al coltissch, ful of ragerye. c1450Petworth MS. Chaucer Wife's T. 602, I had alway a Coltissh tooth. 1577B. Googe Heresbach's Husb. iii. (1586) 126 Our Asses are of themselves desirous enough of the Mares..for it is a woonderfull coltishe beast. 1581Sidney Astr. & Stella xxi, But if he tame Such coltish yeeres. 1625Shirley Love Tricks iii. v, A parson's wife that was coltish once. 1782Cowper Progr. Err. 360 Man's coltish disposition asks the thong. 1850Tennyson In Mem. cxi, The churl in spirit..Will let his coltish nature break At seasons thro' the gilded pale.
Hence ˈcoltishly adv., ˈcoltishness.
1561T. Norton Calvin's Inst. iv. 74 Discipline..is as it were a bridle, wherwith they may be holden backe..which coltishly resist against Christ. 1587T. Hughes, etc. Misfort. of Arth. ii. iv. Cho., Yet Pegasus..coltishly doth kick the cloudes in sky. 1649G. Daniel Trinarch., Hen. IV, lii, The Coltishnes of Mutinye. |