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Definition callow

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).

Adjective

callow (comparative callower or more callow, superlative callowest or most callow)

  1. Unfledged (of a young bird).
  2. (by extension) Immature, lacking in life experience.
  3. Lacking color or firmness (of some kinds of insects or other arthropods, such as spiders, just after ecdysis); teneral.
  4. Shallow or weak-willed.
  5. (of a brick) Unburnt.
  6. Of land: low-lying and liable to be submerged.
  7. (obsolete) Bald.

Noun

callow (countable and uncountable, plural callows)

  1. A callow young bird.
  2. 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.
  3. An alluvial flat.

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LOCAL 10
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ALOW 8
AWOL 8
CALL 9
CALO 8
CLAW 11
COAL 8
COLA 8
COWL 11
LOCA 8
OLLA 6
WALL 9
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AWL 7
CAW 9
COL 7
COW 9
LAC 7
LAW 7
LOW 7
OCA 6
OWL 7
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AW 5
LA 3
LO 3
OW 5
WO 5

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