colthood

/ˈkəʊlt.hʊd/

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: 0.00 in modern English

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noun

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"Their ruddy faces and somewhat cumbrous forms belong to the animal period of life that links together boyhood, colthood and calfhood."
"She had a vague notion that all horses nowadays were trained from their colthood to buck--whatever that was."
"In the old days of his colthood, a barelegged boy used to come into the pasture and jump on his bare back."

From colt + -hood.

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How do you pronounce colthood?

The recorded pronunciation is /ˈkəʊlt.hʊd/.

What does colthood mean?

The state of being a colt; the youth of a (male) horse.

Where does colthood come from?

From colt + -hood.

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