Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to colt
Participle: colted
Gerund: colting
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | colt |
| you | colt |
| he;she;it | colts |
| we | colt |
| you | colt |
| they | colt |
Perfect
| I | have colted |
| you | have colted |
| he;she;it | has colted |
| we | have colted |
| you | have colted |
| they | have colted |
Past
| I | colted |
| you | colted |
| he;she;it | colted |
| we | colted |
| you | colted |
| they | colted |
Pluperfect
| I | had colted |
| you | had colted |
| he;she;it | had colted |
| we | had colted |
| you | had colted |
| they | had colted |
Future
| I | will colt |
| you | will colt |
| he;she;it | will colt |
| we | will colt |
| you | will colt |
| they | will colt |
Future Perfect
| I | will have colted |
| you | will have colted |
| he;she;it | will have colted |
| we | will have colted |
| you | will have colted |
| they | will have colted |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | colt |
| you | colt |
| he;she;it | colt |
| we | colt |
| you | colt |
| they | colt |
Perfect
| I | have colted |
| you | have colted |
| he;she;it | have colted |
| we | have colted |
| you | have colted |
| they | have colted |
Imperfect
| I | colted |
| you | colted |
| he;she;it | colted |
| we | colted |
| you | colted |
| they | colted |
Pluperfect
| I | had colted |
| you | had colted |
| he;she;it | had colted |
| we | had colted |
| you | had colted |
| they | had colted |
Conditional
Present
| I | would colt |
| you | would colt |
| he;she;it | would colt |
| we | would colt |
| you | would colt |
| they | would colt |
Perfect
| I | would have colted |
| you | would have colted |
| he;she;it | would have colted |
| we | would have colted |
| you | would have colted |
| they | would have colted |
Imperative
| you | colt |
| we | Let's colt |
| you | colt |
Verbs conjugated like 'colt'
abandon,
abduct,
abear,
aberr,
abject,
abord,
abort,
abound,
abraid,
abray,
abrook,
abscind,
abscond,
absist,
absorb,
abstain,
abstract,
accend,
accent,
accept, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'colt'
bolt,
coat,
coit,
coll,
cost,
dolt,
jolt,
molt,
tolt,
belt,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Synonyms
- to act licentiously or wantonly
- harlotize
- to act in a lewd and lascivious manner
- blissom, chamber, gill, harlot, harlotize, minx, rake, rig, slut, trollop, wanton, wantonize
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
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.
Sample Sentences
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Never talk on't: / She hath been colted by him. [1611 April (first recorded performance), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Cymbeline”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene iv], line 133:]
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What a plague mean ye to colt me thus? [c. 1597 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The First Part of Henry the Fourth, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene ii], line 36:]
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They shook off their bridles and began to colt. [1596 (date written; published 1633), Edmund Spenser, A Vewe of the Present State of Irelande […], Dublin: […] Societie of Stationers, […], →OCLC; republished as A View of the State of Ireland […] (Ancient Irish Histories), Dublin: […] Society of Stationers, […] Hibernia Press, […] [b]y John Morrison, 1809, →OCLC:]
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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! [1849, The Lancet, page 53:]
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[…] his first appearance the jury duly "colted" him. [1923, Notes and Queries, page 153:]