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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



... write novels," retorted Marchmont, "that are neither indecent nor political, and expect 'em to succeed. Callow youth! Well, I must be off to the office. I've some copy up my sleeve, and if it's a go it'll give your book the biggest ...
— His Lordship's Leopard - A Truthful Narration of Some Impossible Facts • David Dwight Wells
... were two remarkable cases given; one, the child who climbed upon my knee to amaze and upset me by her pessimistic remarks about life; the second, my little friend Nesta— that was her name and she is still on my visiting list—who revealed her callow mind striving to grasp an abstract idea—the idea of time apart from some visible or tangible object. Now these two were aged five years; but what shall we say of the child, the little girl-child who steps out of the cradle, so to speak, as ...
— A Traveller in Little Things • W. H. Hudson
... of a grandee; his eyes were large, dark and languishing; his complexion was a pale olive; while his moustache, black and exquisitely pencilled, was a sign of itself of towering superiority above the rest of us callow youths. That alone would ...
— Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 22. July, 1878. • Various
... back and studied me. Then she smiled slowly, and something about it made me sick inside. "I like older men, Paul. They make people my own age seem so callow, so unfinished. It's so comforting to have mature people around. I always did have an ...
— Let'em Breathe Space • Lester del Rey
... Sarai—my Princess!" His voice was hoarse and faltering. This strange new sense of romance that, like a callow-bird, had been stirring in his breast ever since he had heard of her quest of him, spread its wings and soared heavenwards. She had been impure—but her impurity swathed her in mystic seductiveness. The world's law bound her no more than him—she ...
— Dreamers of the Ghetto • I. Zangwill


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