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Coltishness
noun
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Noun
- 1 The quality of resembling a colt, especially:; The quality of being lively, playful and undisciplined. uncountable
"The grand thing is to get rid of dogged sulks and coltishness—of that wayward, swerving, hesitating gait, which says, “Here’s my foot, and there’s my foot,” or “There is a lion in the street, I cannot go forth!”"
- 2 The quality of resembling a colt, especially:; The quality of being tall, thin and awkward (usually of a young person). uncountable
"Though only a year younger than Reuben, in the midst of the awkward age, his growing limbs quite lacked the coltishness of his brother’s."
Etymology
From coltish + -ness.
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