colt's tooth

English

Noun

colt's tooth (plural colt's teeth)

  1. One of a horse's first set of teeth.
  2. (figuratively) Youthful desires, especially lust.
    • 1613 (date written), William Shakespeare, [John Fletcher], “The Famous History of the Life of King Henry the Eight”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals, and the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):
      Well said Lord Sands,
      Your Colts tooth is not cast yet?
    • 1723, Charles Walker, Memoirs of Sally Salisbury, section 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 [...].
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