Definitions for coltish

coltish colt·ish

Spelling: [kohl-tish]
IPA: /ˈkoʊl tɪʃ/

Coltish is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 203 anagrams from letters in coltish (chilost).

Definitions for coltish

adjective

  1. playful; frolicsome.
  2. of, relating to, or resembling a colt.
  3. not trained or disciplined; unruly; wild.

Origin of coltish

1350-1400; Middle English. See colt, -ish1

Examples for coltish

Old Bess was rearing and plunging with a coltish animation quite inconsistent with the dignity of her twenty-three years.

He dwelt on their coltish doings, their adventures sought and wrought in the perfect fellowship of youth.

The Professor's coltish Daughter regained her adolescent poise, which was considerable.

Youth is uncharitable to youth, so coltish and impatient with shortcomings, and so infinitely borable.

"He may be dead or dying," the Professor's coltish Daughter suggested briskly.

Rousing themselves from coltish recollections of their own, perhaps, the horses began to trot.

"Maybe he's a shape-changer," the Professor's coltish Daughter said in a burst of evil fantasy.

Evidently he held to the rowels in fond memory of his days of 17 slender youth and coltish gambolings.

It was a clean-limbed, coltish lass of thirteen who gained the race and sprang first into the arms of Muckle Alick.

Word Value for coltish
Scrable

12

Words with friends

13

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