What's the difference between coltish and frisky?

Coltish


Definition:

  • (a.) Like a colt; wanton; frisky.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Sudden fame can do strange things to teenagers but, following the 2-1 win against Australia at Sunderland , Sterling and Henderson are confident Rashford will comfortably take it in his rangy, coltish stride.
  • (2) Photograph: Jill Mead for the Guardian In season four there was an all-female final with a memorable cast: the designer Frances Quinn, who was always having “ideas”; the confident, self-assured Kimberley Wilson, who, to no one’s surprise, knew a word in Japanese for the notion of always being able to push yourself beyond your apparent limits; the coltishly beautiful Ruby Tandoh , who flavoured her bakes with a brooding melancholy.
  • (3) Daniel Day-Lewis's embodiment of the Great Emancipator, which transcends mere acting and becomes something more like live sculpting, will take every Best Actor statuette and bauble of the spring awards season, without a doubt, and is now the Lincoln to beat; an Elder Lincoln to bookend Henry Fonda's coltish and knock-kneed Young Mr Lincoln in John Ford's exquisite slice of Americana from 1939.

Frisky


Definition:

  • (a.) Inclined to frisk; frolicsome; gay.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Fans get frisky with the green and yellow Caipirinha-flavoured World Cup condoms are flying off the shelves in Brazil as fans stretch their passion for the home team to new lengths.
  • (2) And look over there; surely it can’t be, but yes, my word: stern old Mr Sillars getting all frisky with Ms May, the boarding school matron, and her kitten heels.
  • (3) This audience included 1.1 million watching the BBC HD simulcast – a frisky figure for a channel that has otherwise struggled to establish itself, featuring as it does a mishmash of programming from all the corporation's TV channels other than BBC1 (which has its own dedicated HD channel).
  • (4) He confesses he does enjoy the thrill of his out-of-hours Frisky Gary persona.
  • (5) Both Rudulph and Porter suggest their lifestyle choices are in some way feminist: "Ever since Mary played the Immaculate card in Bethlehem, our culture has been struggling with a fundamental split: women are unconsciously perceived as either good girls or good-time girls, either naughty or nice … [But] suddenly we can be mothers AND be considered frisky in the bedroom," gushes Porter .
  • (6) And yet none of those messages break into the mainstream debate, in which we reach some rather jolly conclusions about the frisky over-70s, along with sober reflections on whether having a laptop in the bedroom depletes our sexual activity .
  • (7) Besides the presence of a frisky Gordon setter, the scene when I arrive for my appointment with Melinda Nettleton and John Friel exudes simplicity and order: a pristine meeting room at a London legal chambers, tea and biscuits served on spotless white china and conversation of lawyerly precision.
  • (8) Reed honed his comedic style at Cartoon Network's anarchic late-night offshoot Adult Swim, where he devised underwater adventure series Sealab 2021 and superhero parody Frisky Dingo.
  • (9) On The Frisky Amelia McDonnell-Parry wrote: "Whoopi Goldberg, who I never expected to be a rape apologist, coins a term I've never heard before – 'rape-rape' ."
  • (10) Three years after Thinner was turned into a poorly received film, Bryan Smith was driving along Maine's Route 5 while trying to control his frisky rottweiler, Bullet.
  • (11) Facing each other across a quayside street are the fun and frisky Dice Bar , where I’ve spent many a tipsy Friday night, and the agreeably diveish Frank Ryan’s .

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