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coltish

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7 lettersPart of speech adjectiveSorted chilostStarts with CEnds with H0 clues
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Definitions

  1. given to merry frolicking

Word origin

From Middle English coltyssh. By surface analysis, colt + -ish.

Used in a sentence

  • Plants rais’d with tenderness are seldom strong, Man’s coltish disposition asks the thong [i.e. whip], And without discipline the fav’rite child, Like a neglected forrester runs wild.
  • He had a tangle of shock hair, the colour of wool; his mouth was a grin; although as strong as a horse, he looked neither heavy nor yet adroit, only leggy, coltish, and in the road.
  • ‘Darling boy, how are you?’ she said. ‘Do you know, you’re beginning to look rather lovely in a coltish kind of way. Don’t you think so, Otto?’

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