COLTISH

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does coltish mean? 

• COLTISH (adjective)
  The adjective COLTISH has 1 sense:

1. given to merry frolicking

  Familiarity information: COLTISH used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• COLTISH (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Given to merry frolicking

Synonyms:

coltish; frolicky; frolicsome; rollicking; sportive

Context example:

frolicsome students celebrated their graduation with parties and practical jokes

Similar:

playful (full of fun and high spirits)

 Context examples 

I followed him in, and 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.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)