colthood
noun/ˈkəʊlt.hʊd/
Etymology From colt + -hood.
1
The state of being a colt; the youth of a (male) horse.
- Their ruddy faces and somewhat cumbrous forms belong to the animal period of life that links together boyhood, colthood and calfhood.1876, Various, Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science:
- She had a vague notion that all horses nowadays were trained from their colthood to buck--whatever that was.1917, B. M. Bower, The Lookout Man:
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- In the old days of his colthood, a barelegged boy used to come into the pasture and jump on his bare back.1922, Max Brand, Alcatraz: