colt's tooth
English
Noun
colt's tooth (plural colt's teeth)
- 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.
- He was, I trowe, a twenty wynter oold,
- 1623, William Shakespeare, Henry VIII:
- Well said Lord Sands,
Your Colts tooth is not cast yet?
- 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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