callow
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[edit] English
[edit] Etymology
From Middle English calwe (“bald”), from Old English calu (“bald”), from Proto-Germanic *kalwaz (“bare, naked, bald”), from Proto-Indo-European *gAlw- (“naked, bald”). Cognate with Dutch kaal (“bald”), German kahl (“bald”), Russian голый (gólyj, “nude”).
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[edit] Adjective
callow (comparative callower or more callow, superlative callowest or most callow)
- (obsolete) Bald.
- Unfledged (of a young bird).
- Immature, lacking in life experience.
- Those three young men are particularly “callow youths”.
- Lacking color or firmness (of some kinds of insects or other arthropods, such as spiders, just after ecdysis). Teneral.
- Shallow or weak-willed.
- Unburnt (of a brick)
[edit] Translations
Bald
Unfledged
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Immature, lacking in life experience
Lacking color
Shallow or weak-willed
[edit] Noun
callow (countable and uncountable; plural callows)
- A callow young bird.
- A callow phase of an insect or other arthropod.