Definitions For Coltishness

Noun

COLTISHNESS (uncountable) The quality of resembling a colt, especially: The quality of being lively, playful and undisciplined. : Synonym: abandon, exuberance, friskiness, spirit, spiritedness {{quote-book, en, year=1839, author=George Greenwood, title=Hints on Horsemanship, to a Nephew and Niece; or, Common Sense and Common Errors in Common Riding, location=London, publisher=Edward Moxon, page=94, url=https://archive.org/details/hintsonhorsemans00gree {{quote-book, en, year=1915, author=w:Ethel M. Dell, title=The Keeper of the Door, location=New York, publisher=A. L. Burt, chapter=12, page=396, url=https://archive.org/details/keeperofdoor00ethe {{quote-book, en, year=1927, author=w:Sinclair Lewis, title=w:Elmer Gantry, location=London, publisher=Jonathan Cape, year_published=1930, chapter=12, page=209, url=https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.184871 {{quote-book, en, year=1973, author=w:Nelson Algren, chapter=Hand in Hand Through the Greenery, title=The Last Carousel,, location=New York, publisher=Seven Stories Press, page=76, url=https://archive.org/details/lastcarousel00nels The quality of being tall, thin and awkward (usually of a young person). : Synonym: gangliness {{quote-text, en, year=1916, author=w:Sheila Kaye-Smith, title=Sussex Gorse, location=London, publisher=Cassell, year_published=1922, section=Prologue, p. 19, url=https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.35000 1952, {{w, Agatha Christie}} (as Mary Westmacott), {{w, A Daughter's a Daughter, A Daughter’s a Daughter}}, New York: Dell, 1976, Book 2, Chapter 1, p.{{nbsp}}111, : Laura Whitstable was struck by her beauty. The awkward touch of coltishness had gone, she was now a remarkably attractive young woman, with a quite unusual loveliness of face and form. {{quote-text, en, year=1982, author=w:Liza Cody, title=Bad Company, url=https://archive.org/details/badcompany00cody, chapter=3, page=21, publisher=Scribner, location=New York