colt

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义
英 /kəʊlt/|[kɔʊlt]|/kɒlt/|/kəwlt/|[kɔwlt]|/kɔlt/    美 /koʊlt/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A young male horse.
    — The petty vices of boys are like the innocent kicks of colts, as yet imperfectly broken.
  2. A young crane (bird).
  3. A youthful or inexperienced person; a novice. figuratively
    — Ay, that's a colt indeed, for he doth nothing but / talk of his horse, and he makes it a great appropriation to / his own good parts that he can shoe him himself.
  4. A youthful or inexperienced person; a novice.; A professional cricketer during his first season. figuratively,slang
    — The bowling is more promising in the colts than in the eleven.
  5. A youthful or inexperienced person; a novice.; A person who sits as a juryman for the first time. figuratively,obsolete,slang
  6. A short piece of rope once used by petty officers as an instrument of punishment. historical
  7. A weapon formed by slinging a small shot to the end of a somewhat stiff piece of rope. obsolete,slang
  8. A young camel or donkey.
动词 v.
  1. To horse; to get with young. obsolete,transitive
    — Never talk on't: / She hath been colted by him.
  2. To befool. obsolete,transitive
    — What a plague mean ye to colt me thus?
  3. To frisk or frolic like a colt; to act licentiously or wantonly. intransitive
    — They shook off their bridles and began to colt.
  4. To haze (a new recruit), as by charging a new juryman a "fine" to be spent on alcoholic drink, or by striking the sole of his foot with a board, etc. obsolete,slang,transitive
    — We watched our opportunity, seized him, and, laying him across a chest, we colted him with a boot-jack until we nearly killed him, he at the time suffering from numerous boils in the nates; and for all this he obtained no redress!

词形变化

colts plural colts present,singular,third-person colting participle,present colted participle,past colted past

词汇关系

衍生词
catch colt colt evil colthood coltish coltlike coltsfoot coltskin colt's tooth hog colt old-field colt summer colt uncolt uncolted woods colt
相关词
stallion mare foal filly horseling

词源

词源 1
From Middle English colt, from Old English colt, from Proto-Germanic *kultaz (“plump; stump; thick shape, bulb”), from Proto-Indo-European *gelt- (“something round, pregnant belly, child in the womb”), from *gel- (“to ball up, amass”). Cognate with Faroese koltur (“colt, foal”) Norwegian kult (“treestump”), Swedish kult (“young boar, piglet, boy, lad”) / Swedish kulting (“piglet”). Related to child.
词源 2
From Middle English colt, from Old English colt, from Proto-Germanic *kultaz (“plump; stump; thick shape, bulb”), from Proto-Indo-European *gelt- (“something round, pregnant belly, child in the womb”), from *gel- (“to ball up, amass”). Cognate with Faroese koltur (“colt, foal”) Norwegian kult (“treestump”), Swedish kult (“young boar, piglet, boy, lad”) / Swedish kulting (“piglet”). Related to child.
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