The Collaborative International Dictionary
Coltish \Colt"ish\, a. Like a colt; wanton; frisky.
He was all coltish, full of ragery.
--Chaucer.
-- Colt"ish*ly, adv. -- Colt"ish*ness, n.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
late 14c., "wild, frisky," also in early use "lustful, lewd," from colt + -ish. Lit. sense of "pertaining to a colt" is recorded from 1540s.
Wiktionary
a. lively and playful; frisky.
WordNet
adj. given to merry frolicking; "frolicsome students celebrated their graduation with parties and practical jokes" [syn: frolicsome, frolicky, rollicking, sportive]
Usage examples of "coltish".
One was an Olympic gymnast, no more than twenty years old, what is usually referred to as coltish, natural blonde naturally, and much given to scenes in restaurants where the maitre d' objected to her carrying a coatimundi on her shoulder.
He'd watched those young officers come through their baptisms of fire, seen coltish exuberance tempered by hard-won wisdom.
She was a matchstick sketch of the woman she would become, her coltish gawkiness relieved only by her enormous solemn eyes and the pixie beauty of her thin smudged features.
Beverly Marsh in a short skirt which showed most of her long, coltish legs, a Beverly Marsh in white go-go boots, her hair parted in the middle and ironed?
He had told Loli about the kzinti, and now he warned her that they might be near, and saw her coltish legs flash into the forest as he sent the scooter scudding close to the ground toward the heights where his lifeboat was hidden.
A wedding present from Crystal, who had brought a camera to the ceremony, it showed a coltish young girl in a wrinkled dress.