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Callow   /kˈæloʊ/   Listen
adjective
Callow  adj.  
1.
Destitute of feathers; naked; unfledged. "An in the leafy summit, spied a nest, Which, o'er the callow young, a sparrow pressed."
2.
Immature; boyish; "green"; as, a callow youth. "I perceive by this, thou art but a callow maid."



noun
Callow  n.  (Zool.) A kind of duck. See Old squaw.






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"Callow" Quotes from Famous Books



... never appeared, unless—Nora laughed aloud at the thought—he had disguised himself with a cleverness defying detection. With Reginald Hornby, a callow youth, the son of Miss Wickham's dearest friend, who occasionally made the briefest of duty visits; Mr. Wynne, the family solicitor, an elderly bachelor; and the doctor's assistant, a young person by the name ...
— The Land of Promise • D. Torbett

... into one of de bedrooms," said Spike, almost blushing. He felt like a boy reading his first attempts at original poetry to an established critic. What would this master cracksman, this polished wielder of the oxy-acetylene blow-pipe, this expert in toxicology, microscopy and physics think of his callow outpourings! ...
— The Intrusion of Jimmy • P. G. Wodehouse

... want to laugh, but when Mr. Wilbur, who looked scarcely older than himself, and was in appearance but a callow youth, referred to himself as a man of experience he ...
— The Errand Boy • Horatio Alger

... The nest and proceedings of some ground-bees, which had burrowed in the turf under an old cherry-tree, was one subject of interest; the haunts of certain hedge-sparrows, and the welfare of certain pearly eggs and callow fledglings, another. ...
— Shirley • Charlotte Bronte

... gambling of California Street. Every one is mad. Servants, lawyers, hod carriers, merchants, old maids, widows, mechanics, sly wives, thieving clerks, and the "demi-monde," all throng to the portals of the "Big Board." It is a money-mania. Beauty, old age, callow boyhood, fading manhood, all chase the bubble ...
— The Little Lady of Lagunitas • Richard Henry Savage


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