What's the difference between coltish and frolicsome?
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.
Frolicsome
Definition:
(a.) Full of gayety and mirth; given to pranks; sportive.
Example Sentences:
(1) Grass was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1999 for his "frolicsome black fables [which] portray the forgotten face of history".