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colt's tooth

colt's tooth noun: one of a horse's first set of teeth.

Noun

colt's tooth (plural colt's teeth)

  1. One of a horse's first set of teeth.
  2. (figuratively) Youthful desires, especially lust.
    • Well ſaid Lord Sands,
      Your Colts tooth is not caſt yet?1613 (date written), William Shakespeare, [John Fletcher], “The Famous History of the Life of King Henry the Eight”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio)...
    • his Worship, who had still a Colt's-Tooth in his Head, cast an amorous Leer upon SALLY [...] Let me view her again, says the Justice, calling for his Spectacles, and at the same time gave her a gentle Squeeze by the Hand [...].1723, Charles Walker, Memoirs of Sally Salisbury, section V

Forms of colt's tooth

pluralcolt's teeth

Origin of colt's tooth

From Middle English coltes tooth.

Questions about colt's tooth

What does colt's tooth mean?
Colt's tooth means one of a horse's first set of teeth.
What part of speech is colt's tooth?
Colt's tooth is a noun.
What is the plural of colt's tooth?
The plural of colt's tooth is colt's teeth.

Words near colt's tooth in the dictionary

  1. colt's evil
  2. colt's feet
  3. colt's foot
  4. colt's foots
  5. colt's teeth
  6. colt's tooth
  7. colt's-feet
  8. colt's-foot
  9. colt's-foots
  10. coltan
  11. coltans

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