"coltish" meaning in All languages combined

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  "etymology_text": "From Middle English coltyssh, equivalent to colt + -ish.",
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    {
      "form": "more coltish",
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    },
    {
      "form": "most coltish",
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        "superlative"
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
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        {
          "word": "serious"
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          "word": "sober"
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        {
          "ref": "1603, “The Education of Children”, in Philemon Holland, transl., The Philosophie, commonlie called, the Morals written by the learned philosopher Plutarch of Chæronea, London, page 16",
          "text": "Commeth he in the morning to do his dutie and bid thee good morrow, belching sowre and smelling strongly of wine, which the day before he drunke at the taverne with companions like himselfe? seeme to know nothing. Senteth he of sweete perfumes and costly pomanders? Hold thy peace and say nothing. These are the means to tame and breake a wilde and coltish youth.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1782, William Cowper, “The Progress of Error”, in Poems,, London: J. Johnson, page 59",
          "text": "Plants rais’d with tenderness are seldom strong,\nMan’s coltish disposition asks the thong [i.e. whip],\nAnd without discipline the fav’rite child,\nLike a neglected forrester runs wild.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1885, George Meredith, chapter 12, in Diana of the Crossways, volume 3, London: Chapman & Hall, pages 231–232",
          "text": "[…] the batsmen were running and stretching bats, and the ball flying away, flying back, and others after it, and still the batsmen running, till it seemed that the ball had escaped control and was leading the fielders on a coltish innings of its own, defiant of bowlers.",
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        }
      ],
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        "Resembling a colt, especially:",
        "Lively, playful and undisciplined (often in a manner judged to be immature)."
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          "Lively",
          "lively"
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        [
          "playful",
          "playful"
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          "undisciplined",
          "undisciplined"
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          "immature",
          "immature"
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      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "exuberant"
        },
        {
          "word": "frisky"
        },
        {
          "word": "frolicsome"
        },
        {
          "word": "high-spirited"
        },
        {
          "word": "spirited"
        },
        {
          "word": "unrestrained"
        }
      ],
      "translations": [
        {
          "_dis1": "97 3",
          "code": "bg",
          "lang": "Bulgarian",
          "roman": "vesel",
          "sense": "lively and playful; frisky",
          "word": "весел"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "97 3",
          "code": "bg",
          "lang": "Bulgarian",
          "roman": "igriv",
          "sense": "lively and playful; frisky",
          "word": "игрив"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "97 3",
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "lively and playful; frisky",
          "word": "riehakas"
        }
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        {
          "ref": "1883, Robert Louis Stevenson, “The Hunter’s Family”, in The Silverado Squatters, London: Chatto & Windus, page 138",
          "text": "He had a tangle of shock hair, the colour of wool; his mouth was a grin; although as strong as a horse, he looked neither heavy nor yet adroit, only leggy, coltish, and in the road.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1928, Evelyn Waugh, chapter 3, in Decline and Fall, London: Chapman & Hall",
          "text": "‘Darling boy, how are you?’ she said. ‘Do you know, you’re beginning to look rather lovely in a coltish kind of way. Don’t you think so, Otto?’",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
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        "Resembling a colt, especially:",
        "Tall, thin and awkward (especially of an older child or adolescent)."
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          "tall"
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          "thin"
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          "awkward",
          "awkward"
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          "adolescent",
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      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "gangly"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
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}

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    "English terms inherited from Middle English",
    "English terms suffixed with -ish",
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  "etymology_text": "From Middle English coltyssh, equivalent to colt + -ish.",
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    {
      "form": "more coltish",
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      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "most coltish",
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  "pos": "adj",
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          "word": "serious"
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        {
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        "Quotation templates to be cleaned"
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          "ref": "1603, “The Education of Children”, in Philemon Holland, transl., The Philosophie, commonlie called, the Morals written by the learned philosopher Plutarch of Chæronea, London, page 16",
          "text": "Commeth he in the morning to do his dutie and bid thee good morrow, belching sowre and smelling strongly of wine, which the day before he drunke at the taverne with companions like himselfe? seeme to know nothing. Senteth he of sweete perfumes and costly pomanders? Hold thy peace and say nothing. These are the means to tame and breake a wilde and coltish youth.",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "1782, William Cowper, “The Progress of Error”, in Poems,, London: J. Johnson, page 59",
          "text": "Plants rais’d with tenderness are seldom strong,\nMan’s coltish disposition asks the thong [i.e. whip],\nAnd without discipline the fav’rite child,\nLike a neglected forrester runs wild.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1885, George Meredith, chapter 12, in Diana of the Crossways, volume 3, London: Chapman & Hall, pages 231–232",
          "text": "[…] the batsmen were running and stretching bats, and the ball flying away, flying back, and others after it, and still the batsmen running, till it seemed that the ball had escaped control and was leading the fielders on a coltish innings of its own, defiant of bowlers.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
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        "Lively, playful and undisciplined (often in a manner judged to be immature)."
      ],
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          "undisciplined"
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          "word": "exuberant"
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        {
          "word": "frisky"
        },
        {
          "word": "frolicsome"
        },
        {
          "word": "high-spirited"
        },
        {
          "word": "spirited"
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          "word": "unrestrained"
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          "ref": "1883, Robert Louis Stevenson, “The Hunter’s Family”, in The Silverado Squatters, London: Chatto & Windus, page 138",
          "text": "He had a tangle of shock hair, the colour of wool; his mouth was a grin; although as strong as a horse, he looked neither heavy nor yet adroit, only leggy, coltish, and in the road.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1928, Evelyn Waugh, chapter 3, in Decline and Fall, London: Chapman & Hall",
          "text": "‘Darling boy, how are you?’ she said. ‘Do you know, you’re beginning to look rather lovely in a coltish kind of way. Don’t you think so, Otto?’",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Resembling a colt, especially:",
        "Tall, thin and awkward (especially of an older child or adolescent)."
      ],
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          "colt",
          "colt"
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          "Tall",
          "tall"
        ],
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          "thin",
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        [
          "awkward",
          "awkward"
        ],
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        {
          "word": "gangly"
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    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "vesel",
      "sense": "lively and playful; frisky",
      "word": "весел"
    },
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "igriv",
      "sense": "lively and playful; frisky",
      "word": "игрив"
    },
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      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "lively and playful; frisky",
      "word": "riehakas"
    }
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  "word": "coltish"
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