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4-letter words (2 found)

CLOT,COLT,

3-letter words (4 found)

COL,COT,LOT,TOC,

2-letter words (2 found)

LO,TO,

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Definitions and meaning of colt

colt

English

Etymology

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, boy, lad). Related to child.

Pronunciation

  • (UK) IPA(key): /kəʊlt/, [kɔʊlt], (also) /kɒlt/
  • (US) IPA(key): /koʊlt/
  • Rhymes: -əʊlt

Noun

colt (plural colts)

  1. A young male horse.
    Coordinate term: filly
  2. A young crane (bird).
  3. (figuratively) A youthful or inexperienced person; a novice.
    1. (cricket, slang) A professional cricketer during his first season.
    2. (slang, obsolete) A person who sits as a juryman for the first time.
  4. (nautical, historical) A short piece of rope once used by petty officers as an instrument of punishment.
  5. (obsolete, slang) A weapon formed by slinging a small shot to the end of a somewhat stiff piece of rope.
  6. (biblical) A young camel or donkey.

Derived terms

Translations

References

  • (weapon): John Camden Hotten (1873) The Slang Dictionary

Verb

colt (third-person singular simple present colts, present participle colting, simple past and past participle colted)

  1. (obsolete, transitive) To horse; to get with young.
  2. (obsolete, transitive) To befool.
  3. (intransitive) To frisk or frolic like a colt; to act licentiously or wantonly.
  4. (obsolete, slang, transitive) To 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.

Synonyms

  • (to act licentiously or wantonly): See Thesaurus:harlotize

See also

  • stallion, mare, foal, filly, horseling

References

  • “colt”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
  • (to haze): John Camden Hotten (1873) The Slang Dictionary

Further reading

  • colt on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

  • TLOC, clot

French

Noun

colt m (plural colts)

  1. Colt (gun)

Further reading

  • “colt”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Middle English

Alternative forms

  • colte, collt, kowlt

Etymology

From Old English colt, from Proto-Germanic *kultaz.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /kɔlt/, /kɔu̯lt/

Noun

colt (plural coltes)

  1. A juvenile equid or camel; a colt.
  2. (derogatory, rare) A human child.

Descendants

  • English: colt
  • Scots: colt, cout, cowt
  • Yola: caule, caul, cawl, kawle

References

  • “colt, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-08-12.

Old English

Etymology

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).

Noun

colt m

  1. colt (a juvenile horse)

Declension

Strong a-stem:

Descendants

  • Middle English: colt, colte, collt, kowlt
    • English: colt
    • Scots: colt, cout, cowt
    • Yola: caule, caul, cawl, kawle

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from English Colt, named after American inventor Samuel Colt (1814–1862). First attested in late 19th c.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈkolt/ [ˈkol̪t̪]
  • Rhymes: -olt
  • Syllabification: colt

Noun

colt m (plural colts)

  1. (firearms) Colt (a revolver) [from late 19th c.]

Further reading

  • “colt”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10
  • “colt”, in Diccionario histórico de la lengua española [Historical Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], launched 2013, →ISSN

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