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coltish
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Definition:Like a colt; wanton; frisky.Noah Webster. Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
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He was all coltish, full of ragery.
Chaucer. The Canterbury Tales: The Merchant's Tale
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with the tart grace of her coltish subteens
Vladimir Nabokov. Lolita
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I remember observing the contrast the neat, bright doctor, with his powder as white as snow and his bright, black eyes and pleasant manners, made with the coltish country folk, and above all, with that filthy, heavy, bleared scarecrow of a pirate of ours, sitting, far gone in rum, with his arms on the table.
Robert Louis Stevenson. Treasure Island (1883)
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