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Definition of coltish in English: coltishadjective 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
Derivativesadverb 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.
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.
Definition of coltish in US English: coltishadjectiveˈkōltiSHˈkoʊltɪʃ 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 |