colt's tooth

noun

One of a horse's first set of teeth.

Meanings

nouncolt's tooth (plural colt's teeth)

plural colt's teeth

  1. One of a horse's first set of teeth.
  2. figurativelyYouthful desires, especially lust.

    Well ſaid Lord Sands, Your Colts tooth is not caſt yet?

    1613 (date written), William Shakespeare, [John Fletcher], “The Famous History of the Life of King Henry the Eight”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene iii], page 210, column 1
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    his Worship, who had still a Colt's-Tooth in his Head, cast an amorous Leer upon SALLY [...] Let me view her again, says the Justice, calling for his Spectacles, and at the same time gave her a gentle Squeeze by the Hand [...].

    1723, Charles Walker, Memoirs of Sally Salisbury, section V

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Origin

  1. Middle Englishcoltes tooth
  2. Englishcolt's tooth

From Middle English coltes tooth.

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