Coltish

I highly encourage you to read his take on both that and on the later Newbery/Caldecott proceedings though I do take serious issue with any discussion of Shannon Hale that contains the word "coltish". ❋ Fusenumber8 (2006)

She was put on the cover of Time, won an Oscar, attracted the terms ( "coltish", "gamine", "elfin") that would be attached to her thereafter and became the chosen representative of Givenchy chic. ❋ Unknown (2009)

They eyed me solemnly, all long, coltish limbs combined with baby cheeks and huge eyes. ❋ Molly Harper (2011)

He was thin, coltish, none too clean, a half-smile perched on his face like a flatulent frog. ❋ Heather Fowler (2011)

He did however give Bill a daily run for his money with his joie de vivre and coltish mischievous behavior. ❋ Liz O'Connell (2010)

Then there was Cécile McLorin Salvant, at 21 still so young as to be slightly coltish, who came out and proclaimed "I've got a secret!" ❋ Anne Midgette (2010)

Squeezing in an extra 90 minutes for our most prized, coltish 18-year-old is so obviously a bad idea that it is hard to resist the sense that it must, on some level, be rooted in the basic English urge to test and pummel, to boot-camp and basic-train. ❋ Barney Ronay (2010)

"Sonatine," Balanchine's alternately grounded and playfully darting duet to Maurice Ravel's piano music, got a confident and charming performance from coltish Courtney Anderson and an ardent Momchil Mladenov. ❋ Robert Greskovic (2011)

"I managed to get 140 words a minute for shorthand and 70 for typing, just about scraping through," she says, but already her looks – waifish and coltish, she calls them – had been noticed by the film director Cy Endfield. ❋ Unknown (2011)

And as a mother of three, she knows how to physically portray a coltish, over-excited 14-year-old. ❋ Pia Catton (2011)

The coltish Henderson, whose gawky movement can disguise his skill, and Downing both acquitted themselves well but the new boys had nothing to do with Liverpool's equaliser. ❋ Unknown (2012)

He doesn't want to let go of this friend that he cajoled and convinced to do miracles for him that one season before his lean, coltish body began to break down. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Soprano Emily Albrink's pert, pearl-toned Susanna may have been the liveliest, most affectionately detailed performance of the evening, but the coltish Cherubino of mezzo Brandy Lynn Hawkins, the amusingly frowzy Marcellina of mezzo Cynthia Hanna and the winkingly flamboyant turn by tenor Jesús Daniel Hernandez as Basilio all made fine impressions. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Instead amid the chaos handshakes were exchanged and Hampshire, led by the coltish Dominic Cork, now in his 40th year, could commence their late-night celebrations. ❋ Unknown (2010)

This is a hell-to-the-no style for all but the most coltish among us. ❋ Unknown (2010)

He disgraced himself at Royal Ascot by getting coltish in the paddock before the Queen Anne and then pulled hard through the early part of the race, so it was little surprise when he ran out of puff in the final furlong. ❋ Unknown (2010)