Meanings
plural colt's teeth
- 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 11 more example
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
Synonyms & antonyms
Origin
- Middle Englishcoltes tooth
- Englishcolt's tooth
From Middle English coltes tooth.
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