colthood

English

Etymology

From colt +‎ -hood.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkəʊlt.hʊd/

Noun

colthood (uncountable)

1. The state of being a colt; the youth of a (male) horse.
   • 1876, Various, Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science‎^[1]:

     Their ruddy faces and somewhat cumbrous forms belong to the animal period of life that links together boyhood, colthood and calfhood.

   • 1917, B. M. Bower, The Lookout Man‎^[2]:

     She had a vague notion that all horses nowadays were trained from their colthood to buck--whatever that was.

   • 1922, Max Brand, Alcatraz‎^[3]:

     In the old days of his colthood, a barelegged boy used to come into the pasture and jump on his bare back.