colthood

noun
/ˈkəʊlt.hʊd/

Etymology

From colt + -hood.

  1. derived from *gelt-
  2. derived from *kultaz
  3. inherited from colt
  4. inherited from colt
  5. suffixed as colthood — “colt + hood

Definitions

  1. The state of being a colt

    The state of being a colt; the youth of a (male) horse.

    • Their ruddy faces and somewhat cumbrous forms belong to the animal period of life that links together boyhood, colthood and calfhood.
    • She had a vague notion that all horses nowadays were trained from their colthood to buck--whatever that was.
    • In the old days of his colthood, a barelegged boy used to come into the pasture and jump on his bare back.

The neighborhood

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA