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单词 coltish
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Definition of coltish in English:

coltish

adjective ˈkəʊltɪʃˈkoʊltɪʃ
  • Energetic but awkward in one's movements or behaviour.

    精力充沛但行动笨拙的

    long, lean, coltish women
    their impossibly coltish legs
    Example sentencesExamples
    • Lengths in skirts are also a matter of preference this Spring, but for those of you with less than coltish limbs, there are also plenty of ankle skimming numbers to choose from.
    • There she was gambolling around Covent Garden one afternoon in her school uniform, minding her own business, when a scout from Elite modelling agency caught sight of the coltish 15-year-old.
    • Working within the constraints of royal ceremony, she combined an impetuous, coltish physicality with high glamour and a flirtatious, seductive allure.
    • Suddenly, every issue of Vogue had picture after picture of the most incredible person: coltish limbs, with a tiny face, retroussé nose, huge eyes and an adorable fringe.
    • A visit to Lake Placid every year allows you to watch as the cute little tykes from pre-juvenile and juvenile dance morph into coltish adolescents in novice and then stunning young heartbreakers in juniors and seniors.
    • You can only celebrate the fact that, for a time, the most perfect relationship - between middle-aged fathers and coltish teens - took place under your nose and was replicated in the houses of friends.
    • After my rant last week about the downright overblown nature of Premiership football, a coltish newsroom colleague collared me.
    • While the Dutch showed coltish flamboyance, the Italians were resolute, unflappable, patient, wise, brilliant.
    • He, you see, is a details man, a coltish clothes horse, and a dedicated Anglophile to boot.
    • Yesterday he was asking for more time - for himself, and any manager attempting to rear young players - after watching his coltish team being dismantled by Rangers.
    • They paid the princely sum of one shilling to queue up on the narrow staircase and head downstairs into a room filled with the noise of revelling mop-headed boys and coltish girls with pale-painted mouths and thick, black eyelashes.
    • They themselves were youthful, ambitious artists channeling the hubris of their own oyster-worlds into these coltish, intelligent alter egos.
    • Juliet's coltish, little girl steps soon slink, like Prokofiev's undulating score, into something languorous and self knowing enough to convince us she is now a woman in love.
    • He was a tall, coltish, bespectacled young man, curiously lovable.
    • As a coltish 16-year-old who was unprepared to deal with her still-maturing body, she began to struggle with weight control and self-doubt.
    • They capture the coltish youth of two 16-year-olds in the throes of first love, but somehow missing is the fever of a relationship that spirals toward death.
    • He questioned whether he still possessed the athletic vigour to handle coltish opponents as once he did.
    • Despite the best efforts of Hollywood's image-spinners, she refuses to play the game, preferring to relax, ignore the hype, and flaunt her coltish figure.
    • On various sporting topics this column has never shied from the notion that talent, no matter how coltish, should be given free rein.
    • It was, though, his coltish pace and imposing height and strength which first unsettled the Glasgow defence.
    Synonyms
    frisky, jolly, fun-loving, lively, full of fun, high-spirited, spirited, in high spirits, exuberant, perky, skittish, kittenish

Derivatives

  • coltishly

  • adverb
    • Instead of standing as if she were balancing a book on her head, she was knock-kneed and coltishly awkward.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Critically acclaimed and coltishly adored, the album was recorded to the highest standards.
      • He is coltishly appealing, brave, leathery, and a West Pointer.
      • Though nursing a cold, he is coltishly exuberant about his love for acting, discovering literature, his first big movie and New York - including the subways.
      • You've just got off your flight to Delhi and, with the innocence and exuberance of a new-born lamb, you bound coltishly out into the street.
  • coltishness

  • noun
    • She can't really play kids anymore - and coltishness was so much her thing.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • What saves the movie from sinking is the bouncy coltishness of its young cast.
      • Even now, her skinny blue-jeaned legs still betraying an awkward coltishness and her porcelain features devoid of makeup, she could pass as a pre-teen.
      • The piece is bemused, tender and funny, the dancing evocative not only of the disgraced president's choppy gestures but also of the coltishness of adolescent girls.
      • It gives off a kind of zeitgeist instead of coltishness and pride.

Rhymes

doltish

Definition of coltish in US English:

coltish

adjectiveˈkōltiSHˈkoʊltɪʃ
  • Energetic but awkward in one's movements or behavior.

    精力充沛但行动笨拙的

    long, lean, coltish women
    their impossibly coltish legs
    Example sentencesExamples
    • Lengths in skirts are also a matter of preference this Spring, but for those of you with less than coltish limbs, there are also plenty of ankle skimming numbers to choose from.
    • They themselves were youthful, ambitious artists channeling the hubris of their own oyster-worlds into these coltish, intelligent alter egos.
    • He, you see, is a details man, a coltish clothes horse, and a dedicated Anglophile to boot.
    • Despite the best efforts of Hollywood's image-spinners, she refuses to play the game, preferring to relax, ignore the hype, and flaunt her coltish figure.
    • They capture the coltish youth of two 16-year-olds in the throes of first love, but somehow missing is the fever of a relationship that spirals toward death.
    • As a coltish 16-year-old who was unprepared to deal with her still-maturing body, she began to struggle with weight control and self-doubt.
    • While the Dutch showed coltish flamboyance, the Italians were resolute, unflappable, patient, wise, brilliant.
    • You can only celebrate the fact that, for a time, the most perfect relationship - between middle-aged fathers and coltish teens - took place under your nose and was replicated in the houses of friends.
    • Juliet's coltish, little girl steps soon slink, like Prokofiev's undulating score, into something languorous and self knowing enough to convince us she is now a woman in love.
    • Working within the constraints of royal ceremony, she combined an impetuous, coltish physicality with high glamour and a flirtatious, seductive allure.
    • There she was gambolling around Covent Garden one afternoon in her school uniform, minding her own business, when a scout from Elite modelling agency caught sight of the coltish 15-year-old.
    • On various sporting topics this column has never shied from the notion that talent, no matter how coltish, should be given free rein.
    • Suddenly, every issue of Vogue had picture after picture of the most incredible person: coltish limbs, with a tiny face, retroussé nose, huge eyes and an adorable fringe.
    • They paid the princely sum of one shilling to queue up on the narrow staircase and head downstairs into a room filled with the noise of revelling mop-headed boys and coltish girls with pale-painted mouths and thick, black eyelashes.
    • He questioned whether he still possessed the athletic vigour to handle coltish opponents as once he did.
    • Yesterday he was asking for more time - for himself, and any manager attempting to rear young players - after watching his coltish team being dismantled by Rangers.
    • It was, though, his coltish pace and imposing height and strength which first unsettled the Glasgow defence.
    • He was a tall, coltish, bespectacled young man, curiously lovable.
    • After my rant last week about the downright overblown nature of Premiership football, a coltish newsroom colleague collared me.
    • A visit to Lake Placid every year allows you to watch as the cute little tykes from pre-juvenile and juvenile dance morph into coltish adolescents in novice and then stunning young heartbreakers in juniors and seniors.
    Synonyms
    frisky, jolly, fun-loving, lively, full of fun, high-spirited, spirited, in high spirits, exuberant, perky, skittish, kittenish
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