colt
nomverbecourant dans les dialogues
- Royaume-Uni//kəʊlt//
- Royaume-Uni/[kɔʊlt]/
- Royaume-Uni//kɒlt//
- Royaume-Uni//kəwlt//
A young male horse.
nom
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A young male horse.
The petty vices of boys are like the innocent kicks of colts, as yet imperfectly broken.
- 2
A young crane (bird).
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figuréA youthful or inexperienced person; a novice.
Ay, that's a colt indeed, for he doth nothing but / talk of his horse, and he makes it a great appropriation to / his own good parts that he can shoe him himself.
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figuréA youthful or inexperienced person; a novice. A professional cricketer during his first season.
The bowling is more promising in the colts than in the eleven.
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figuréA youthful or inexperienced person; a novice. A person who sits as a juryman for the first time.
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historiqueA short piece of rope once used by petty officers as an instrument of punishment.
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obsolèteA weapon formed by slinging a small shot to the end of a somewhat stiff piece of rope.
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A young camel or donkey.
Étymologie
From Middle English colt, from Old English colt, from Proto-Germanic *kultaz (“plump; stump; thick shape, bulb”), from Proto-Indo-European *gelt- (“something round, pregnant belly, child in the womb”), from *gel- (“to ball up, amass”). Cognate with Faroese koltur (“colt, foal”) Norwegian kult (“treestump”), Swedish kult (“young boar, piglet, boy, lad”) / Swedish kulting (“piglet”). Related to child.
verbe
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obsolèteTo horse; to get with young.
Never talk on't: / She hath been colted by him.
- 2
obsolèteTo befool.
What a plague mean ye to colt me thus?
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To frisk or frolic like a colt; to act licentiously or wantonly.
They shook off their bridles and began to colt.
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obsolèteTo haze (a new recruit), as by charging a new juryman a "fine" to be spent on alcoholic drink, or by striking the sole of his foot with a board, etc.
We watched our opportunity, seized him, and, laying him across a chest, we colted him with a boot-jack until we nearly killed him, he at the time suffering from numerous boils in the nates; and for all this he obtained no redress!
[…] his first appearance the jury duly "colted" him.
Formes
- pluriel
- colts
- passé
- colted
- participe passé
- colted
- participe présent
- colting
- 3ᵉ personne du singulier
- colts