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callow
English
Etymology
From Middle English calwe (“bald”), from Old English calu (“callow, bare, bald”), from Proto-Germanic *kalwaz (“bare, naked, bald”), from Proto-Indo-European gel(H)wo- (“naked, bald”). Cognate with West Frisian keal (“bald”), Dutch kaal (“bald”), German kahl (“bald”), Russian ?????? (gólyj, “nude”), Latin calvus (“bald”), Persian ??? (kal), Sanskrit ????? (kulvá).
Pronunciation
- (US) IPA(key): /?kælo?/
- (UK) IPA(key): /?kal??/
- Rhymes: -æl??
Adjective
callow (comparative callower or more callow, superlative callowest or most callow)
- Unfledged (of a young bird).
- (by extension) Immature, lacking in life experience.
- Antonyms: mature, experienced
- Lacking color or firmness (of some kinds of insects or other arthropods, such as spiders, just after ecdysis); teneral.
- Shallow or weak-willed.
- (of a brick) Unburnt.
- Of land: low-lying and liable to be submerged.
- (obsolete) Bald.
Translations
Noun
callow (countable and uncountable, plural callows)
- A callow young bird.
- A callow or teneral phase of an insect or other arthropod, typically shortly after ecdysis, while the skin still is hardening, the colours have not yet become stable, and as a rule, before the animal is able to move effectively.
- An alluvial flat.
References
- Douglas Harper (2001–2021) , “callow”, in Online Etymology Dictionary
Anagrams
- low-cal
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calloo
English
Etymology
Imitative of its call.
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /k??lu?/
Noun
calloo (plural calloos)
- (chiefly Scotland) The long-tailed duck, Clangula hyemalis, an Arctic sea duck.
- 1989, Keith Bosley, translating Elias Lönnrot, The Kalevala, IV:
- This is how the luckless feel / how the calloos [transl. allit] think— / like hard snow under a ridge / like water in a deep well.
- 2012, Richard Williamson, West Sussex Gazette, 8 Jan 2012:
- The Scots called it the ‘wild calloo’ from the unearthly call it had which seemed almost to bewitch fisher-folk hunting for herring in calm autumn nights off the Scottish Isles.
- 1989, Keith Bosley, translating Elias Lönnrot, The Kalevala, IV:
Translations
Anagrams
- alcool
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