Callow Definition
Shallow or weak-willed.
Unburnt (of a brick)
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.
Other Word Forms of Callow
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Adjective
Origin of Callow
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From Middle English calwe (“bald”), from Old English calu (“callow, bare, bald”), from Proto-Germanic *kalwaz (“bare, naked, bald”), from Proto-Indo-European *gAlw- (“naked, bald”). Cognate with West Frisian keal (“bald”), Dutch kaal (“bald”), German kahl (“bald”), Russian голый (gólyj, “nude”).
From Wiktionary
Middle English calwe bald from Old English calu
From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
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