coolth

[ koolth ]

nounUsually Facetious.

Origin of coolth

1
First recorded in 1540–50; cool + -th1

Words Nearby coolth

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How to use coolth in a sentence

  • The long table was set in the wide doorway of the shed, "for coolth," Mrs. Bailey said.

    Pippin; A Wandering Flame | Laura E. Richards
  • I've had a picture in my mind for forty years of the big house was in it, and the coolth of the well.

    The Wind Bloweth | Brian Oswald Donn-Byrne
  • Travel by easy stages, and during the coolth, so as not to tire yourself.

    Napoleon's Letters to Josephine | Henry Foljambe Hall
  • The soft air of evening, already tempered with an earnest of the coolth to come, was sweet to taste with parted lips.

    Linda Lee, Incorporated | Louis Joseph Vance
  • Four big wagon loads lay bobbing in the coolth of the spring branch.

    Dishes & Beverages of the Old South | Martha McCulloch Williams

British Dictionary definitions for coolth

coolth

/ (kuːlθ) /


noun
  1. coolness

Origin of coolth

1
C16: originally dialect, from cool + -th 1

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