colt's tooth
Noun
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Noun
colt's tooth
- One of a horse's first set of teeth.
- (figuratively) Youthful desires, especially lust.
- c. 1390, Geoffrey Chaucer, "Wife of Bath's Prologue", Canterbury Tales:
- He was, I trowe, a twenty wynter oold, / And I was fourty, if I shal seye sooth, / But yet I hadde alwey a coltes tooth.
- 1723, Charles Walker, Memoirs of Sally Salisbury, V:
- 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 [...].
- c. 1390, Geoffrey Chaucer, "Wife of Bath's Prologue", Canterbury Tales:
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