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Definition: Coltish |
ColtishAdjective1. Given to merry frolicking; "frolicsome students celebrated their graduation with parties and practical jokes". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "coltish" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1380. (references) |
Synonyms: ColtishSynonyms: frolicky (adj), frolicsome (adj), rollicking (adj), sportive (adj). (additional references) |
| "Coltish" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 85.71% of the time. "Coltish" is used about 7 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 85.71% | 6 | 143,867 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 14.29% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 7 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Language | Translations for "coltish"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | i gëzuar (airy, blithe, blithesome, canty, cheerful, glad, Gladdening, gladsome, gleeful, happy, joyful, joyous, larky, lightsome, merry, mirthful, oared, sprightly). (various references) | |
Arabic | لعوب (dallying, frisky, frivolous, playful, prankish, skittish, sportive, wanton). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | весел (airy, blithe, blithesome, boisterous, bright, buoyant, canty, cheery, chirp, chirpy, colorful, colourful, convivial, daft, debonair, exhilarated, festal, gamesome, gay, genial, gladsome, gleeful, gleesome, good humoured, good-humored, high, humorous, jaunty, jocular, jocund, joky, jolly, jovial, joyful, joyous, light, light hearted, lightsome, lively, mellow, merry, mirthful, peppy, perky, rackety, roistering, rollicking, rorty, rosy, saucy, slaphappy, sparkish, sportive, sporty, sprightly, swinging, upbeat, winsome), неопитен (callow, fresh, green, inexpert, maiden, raw, sucking, unexperienced, unpractised, unschooled, unseasoned, unsophisticated, untutored, unversed, unworldly, verdant, young), игрив (blithe, frisky, frolic, frolicsome, gamesome, gay, jocose, kittenish, mischievous, monkeyish, pert, playful, skittish, sportful, sportive, tricksy, wanton). (various references) | |
Czech | bujný (abundant, ample, Corky, exuberant, high-spirited, lush, luxuriant, rampant, rank, thick, voluminous, wanton). (various references) | |
French | folâtre. (various references) | |
German | neu (afresh, clean, fresh, incoming, innovative, new, new-found, newly, newly-look, nouveau, novel, raw, recent, unworn, young). (various references) | |
Hungarian | zöldfülû (callow, greenhorn, tenderfoot, verdant, youngling). (various references) | |
Manx | lhiyagh, anoayllagh (ignorant, infrequent, raw, unacquainted, uninformed), aeragh (aerated, airy, atmospheric, carefree, etherial, jaunty). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | oltishcay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | vivo (above-ground, active, acute, adroit, agile, alert, alive, argute, bobbish, bouncing, brainy, breezy, bright, brisk, buoyant, chirpy, clear-sighted, clinking, cork, corky, crisp, dapper, diagram, fervent, frisky, gaudy, gay, graphic, graphical, hasty, hurry, intense, juicy, keen, kittenish, knowing, light, lightsome, live, lively, living, luminous, lusty, mercurial, mettled, mettlesome, nimble, nippy, parky, perky, pert, picturesque, poignant, quick, racy, rattling, resilient, shrewd, smart, spanking, speaking, spirited, sprightly, spry, stirring, subtil, subtile, subtle, swift, swift-handed, vivacious, vivid, volatile, warm, watchful, zippy), alegre (alive, blithe, blithesome, bonny, boon, breezy, brisk, buoyant, buxom, canty, cheerful, cheery, chirpy, convivial, corky, diverting, entertaining, exhilarated, festal, festive, frolicsome, gamesome, gay, glad, gladsome, gleeful, happy, hilarious, holiday, jaunty, jocular, jocund, jolly, jovial, joyful, joyous, jubilant, larksome, laughing, light, light-hearted, lightsome, lively, merry, mirthful, peart, resilient, slaphappy, sportful, sportive, sprightly, tipsy, vivid, volatile, winsome). (various references) | |
Russian | жеребячий. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | nalik na ždrebe. (various references) | |
Spanish | retozón (frisky, frolicsome, kittenish, rollicking). (various references) | |
Swedish | yster (frisky, skittish, wanton, wild), vild (delirious, ding-dong, ferae naturae, feral, ferine, ferocious, fierce, frenetic, haggard, headlong, madcap, phrenetic, rampant, riotous, savage, truculant, truculent, untamed, wild, wildcat), oerfaren (callow, fresh, freshwater, green, inexperienced, inexpert, unexperience, unpractised, unskilled). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | лошачий, пустотливий (airy, arch, elfish, elvish, frisky, gamesome, impish, kittenish, mischievous, monkeyish, naughty, prankish, puckish, roguish, sly, waggish, wanton, whisky). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | còn non nớt (half-baked, unfledged, unripe), còn dại, thiếu kinh nghiệm (inexperienced, unexperienced, verdant). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "coltish": coltishly, coltishness, coltishnesses. (additional references) | |
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"Coltish" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: clotis, clotish, coolish, cortis, Cotleigh, cuntish, Kostash, saltish, volkish. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words rhyming with "coltish" (pronounced 'Colt"ish'): Abolish, Admonish, Affamish, Alish, Amateurish, Apish, Aspish, Assish, Astonish, Babish, Baboonish, Balkish, Banish, Bardish, Basquish, Bearish, Beauish, Blackish, Blockish, Bluish, Bluntish, Boarish, Bookish, Boorish, Boyish, Brackish, Brainish, Brinish, Broadish, Brockish, Brownish, Buccaneerish, Buckish, Buffoonish, Bullish, Calvish, Cavalierish, Cherish, Childish, Churlish, Clayish, Clownish, Coldish, Coolish, Coyish, Czarish, Dampish, Danish, Dankish, Darkish. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-h-i-l-o-s-t" | |
-1 letter: cloths, holist, lichts, lithos, thiols. | |
-2 letters: chits, clits, cloth, clots, coils, colts, hilts, hoist, holts, licht, litho, lochs, lotic, sloth, stich, stoic, thiol, toils. | |
-3 letters: chis, chit, cist, clit, clot, coil, cols, colt, cosh, cost, cots, hilt, hist, hits, hols, holt, host, hots, ichs, itch, lich, list, lits, loch, loci, lost, loth, loti. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-h-i-l-o-s-t" | |
+1 letter: holistic, trochils. | |
+2 letters: acroliths, catholics, chlorites, clothiers, clothings, coltishly, cystolith, dishcloth, dishclout, helicopts, locksmith, oilcloths, sailcloth, scholiast, trochilus, wholistic. | |
+3 letters: archivolts, blotchiest, catholicos, chelations, chrysolite, chrysotile, clothespin, cystoliths, dishcloths, dishclouts, haircloths, histologic, historical, homiletics, isoplethic, laccoliths, locksmiths, lockstitch, loincloths, microliths, patchoulis, phlogistic, pitchpoles, sailcloths, scholastic, scholiasts, schooltime, slouchiest, splotchier, splotching, touchlines. | |
+4 letters: ahistorical, catholicons, chalcocites, chlorinates, cholestasis, cholestatic, cholesteric, chrysolites, chrysotiles, clothesline, clothespins, coltishness, hectoliters, helicopters, holoblastic, homoplastic, hylozoistic, hypoplastic, interschool, ostrichlike, patchoulies, phycologist, psilophytic, scholastics, scholiastic, schooltimes, sophistical, spirochetal, splotchiest, thiouracils, thrasonical, torchlights. | |
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| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Usage Frequency 4. Translations: Modern | 5. Derivations 6. Rhymes 7. Anagrams 8. Bibliography |
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