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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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unaccustomed
English
Etymology
un- +? accustomed
Adjective
unaccustomed (comparative more unaccustomed, superlative most unaccustomed)
- Not used to an event or thing, not accustomed.
- I again conveyed his key into his pocket, and counterfeiting sleep—though I never once closed my eyes, lay in bed till after he arose and went to prayers—an exercise to which I had long been unaccustomed.
- He is unaccustomed to the cold.
Derived terms
- unaccustomedly
- unaccustomedness
Translations
Verb
unaccustomed
- simple past tense and past participle of unaccustom
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