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Syllable division derived from spelling — this word is not in the pronouncing dictionary, so no phonetic transcription is shown rather than a guessed one.
coltish is an adjective meaning "given to merry frolicking". It carries one recorded sense.
given to merry frolicking
“frolicsome students celebrated their graduation with parties and practical jokes”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for coltish come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.