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colthood en · NOUN

Pronunciation

  • /ˈkəʊlt.hʊd/

Etymology

From colt + -hood.

Meanings

  1. (uncountable) The state of being a colt; the youth of a (male) horse.
    • She had a vague notion that all horses nowadays were trained from their colthood to buck--whatever that was. 1917, B. M. Bower, The Lookout Man:
    • In the old days of his colthood, a barelegged boy used to come into the pasture and jump on his bare back. 1922, Max Brand, Alcatraz:
    • Their ruddy faces and somewhat cumbrous forms belong to the animal period of life that links together boyhood, colthood and calfhood. 1876, Various, Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science: