<young animal>
→
novice
2 realizations
Related shifts
| ID | Meaning 1 | Direction | Meaning 2 |
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Comment
| ACCEPTED Realization 1 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Polysemy | |
| language | English | |
| lexeme | colt | |
| meaning 1 | young male horse | |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | (cricket, slang) a professional cricketer during his first season | The bowling is more promising in the colts than in the eleven. (1882, The Downside Review, volume 1, page 287) |
| reference | OED English Wiktionary | |
| comment | |
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| ACCEPTED Realization 2 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Polysemy | |
| language | Romanian | |
| lexeme | boboc | |
| meaning 1 | gosling, duckling | |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | novice. unexperienced, beginner; student in the first year | |
| reference | MDA2 | |
| comment | ||