"callow" meaning in English

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Adjective

IPA: /ˈkæloʊ/ [US], /ˈkaləʊ/ [UK] Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-callow.wav [Southern-England] Forms: callower [comparative], more callow [comparative], callowest [superlative], most callow [superlative]
Rhymes: -æləʊ Etymology: From Middle English calwe (“bald”), from Old English calu (“bare, bald, callow”), from Proto-West Germanic *kalu, from Proto-Germanic *kalwaz (“bare, naked, bald”), from Proto-Indo-European *gel(H)wo- (“bare, naked, bald”). Cognate with West Frisian keal (“bald”), Dutch kaal (“bald”), German Low German kahl (“bald”), German kahl (“bald”), Swedish kal and kalka (“bald”), Russian го́лый (gólyj, “bare, naked, nude”). Compare similar meaning and similar sounding Latin calvus (“bald”), Finnish kalju (“bald”), Persian کل (kal), and Sanskrit कुल्व (kulvá), which despite close resemblance to the Germanic and Slavic terms are probably false cognates with them, due to Grimm's law. Etymology templates: {{root|en|ine-pro|*gelH-}}, {{inh|en|enm|calwe|t=bald}} Middle English calwe (“bald”), {{inh|en|ang|calu|t=bare, bald, callow}} Old English calu (“bare, bald, callow”), {{inh|en|gmw-pro|*kalu}} Proto-West Germanic *kalu, {{inh|en|gem-pro|*kalwaz|t=bare, naked, bald}} Proto-Germanic *kalwaz (“bare, naked, bald”), {{der|en|ine-pro|*gelH-|*gel(H)wo-|t=bare, naked, bald}} Proto-Indo-European *gel(H)wo- (“bare, naked, bald”), {{cog|fy|keal|t=bald}} West Frisian keal (“bald”), {{cog|nl|kaal|t=bald}} Dutch kaal (“bald”), {{cog|nds-de|kahl|t=bald}} German Low German kahl (“bald”), {{cog|de|kahl|t=bald}} German kahl (“bald”), {{cog|sv|kal}} Swedish kal, {{m|sv|kalka|t=bald}} kalka (“bald”), {{cog|ru|го́лый|t=bare, naked, nude}} Russian го́лый (gólyj, “bare, naked, nude”), {{noncog|la|calvus|t=bald}} Latin calvus (“bald”), {{noncog|fi|kalju|t=bald}} Finnish kalju (“bald”), {{noncog|fa|کل|tr=kal}} Persian کل (kal), {{noncog|sa|कुल्व|tr=kulvá}} Sanskrit कुल्व (kulvá) Head templates: {{en-adj|er|more}} callow (comparative callower or more callow, superlative callowest or most callow)
  1. Bald, hairless, bare. Categories (topical): Hair
    Sense id: en-callow-en-adj-BrJ4IGsV Disambiguation of Hair: 40 2 14 5 7 7 14 3 1 7 1 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with topic categories using raw markup Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 13 6 17 1 14 9 20 6 0 14 0 Disambiguation of English entries with topic categories using raw markup: 17 4 18 3 11 7 19 4 0 14 1
  2. Unfledged (of a young bird), featherless. Translations (unfledged): неоперен (neoperen) (Bulgarian), ongevederd (Dutch), höyhenetön (Finnish), ungefiedert (German), άπτερος (ápteros) [masculine] (Greek), scallta (Irish), gan cleiteacha (Irish), nieopierzony (Polish), implume [feminine, masculine] (Portuguese), неоперившийся (neoperivšijsja) (Russian), неопере́ний (neoperényj) (Ukrainian)
    Sense id: en-callow-en-adj-umGKmsQF Disambiguation of 'unfledged': 2 83 2 8 1 1 3 1
  3. (by extension, life-cycle developmental stage) Newly emerged or hatched, juvenile. Tags: broadly
    Sense id: en-callow-en-adj-X5h3QdPF Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with topic categories using raw markup Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 13 6 17 1 14 9 20 6 0 14 0 Disambiguation of English entries with topic categories using raw markup: 17 4 18 3 11 7 19 4 0 14 1
  4. (by extension) Immature, lacking in life experience. Tags: broadly Translations (immature, lacking in life experience): неопитен (neopiten) (Bulgarian), onervaren (Dutch), onrijp (Dutch), groen (Dutch), kypsymätön (Finnish), kokematon (Finnish), vihreä (Finnish), unerfahren (German), unreif (German), grün (German), άπειρος (ápeiros) [masculine] (Greek), πρωτόβγαλτος (protóvgaltos) [masculine] (Greek), zöldfülű (Hungarian), taknyos [pejorative] (Hungarian), gan chiall (Irish), 没经年 (Mandarin), waitau (Maori), niedojrzały (Polish), niedoświadczony (Polish), imaturo [masculine] (Portuguese), inexperiente [feminine, masculine] (Portuguese), verde [feminine, masculine] (Portuguese), незре́лый (nezrélyj) (Russian), нео́пытный (neópytnyj) (Russian), inmaduro (Spanish), verde (Spanish), недосві́дчений (nedosvídčenyj) (Ukrainian), незрі́лий (nezrílyj) (Ukrainian)
    Sense id: en-callow-en-adj-I6wrUSIA Disambiguation of 'immature, lacking in life experience': 2 2 3 84 6 2 0 1
  5. Lacking color or firmness (of some kinds of insects or other arthropods, such as spiders, just after ecdysis); teneral. Translations (lacking color): fakó (Hungarian)
    Sense id: en-callow-en-adj-rkY0WOIH Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with topic categories using raw markup Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 13 6 17 1 14 9 20 6 0 14 0 Disambiguation of English entries with topic categories using raw markup: 17 4 18 3 11 7 19 4 0 14 1 Disambiguation of 'lacking color': 5 1 2 32 53 4 1 2
  6. Shallow or weak-willed. Translations (shallow or weak-willed): heikkotahtoinen (Finnish), слабові́льній (slabovílʹnij) (Ukrainian)
    Sense id: en-callow-en-adj-y7RsI7MW Disambiguation of 'shallow or weak-willed': 3 1 2 4 3 84 2 1
  7. (of a brick) Unburnt.
    Sense id: en-callow-en-adj-NDbmyVMQ Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with topic categories using raw markup Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 13 6 17 1 14 9 20 6 0 14 0 Disambiguation of English entries with topic categories using raw markup: 17 4 18 3 11 7 19 4 0 14 1
  8. Of land: low-lying and liable to be submerged.
    Sense id: en-callow-en-adj-c9JtCQMT
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: callowly, callowness

Noun

IPA: /ˈkæloʊ/ [US], /ˈkaləʊ/ [UK] Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-callow.wav [Southern-England] Forms: callows [plural]
Rhymes: -æləʊ Etymology: From Middle English calwe (“bald”), from Old English calu (“bare, bald, callow”), from Proto-West Germanic *kalu, from Proto-Germanic *kalwaz (“bare, naked, bald”), from Proto-Indo-European *gel(H)wo- (“bare, naked, bald”). Cognate with West Frisian keal (“bald”), Dutch kaal (“bald”), German Low German kahl (“bald”), German kahl (“bald”), Swedish kal and kalka (“bald”), Russian го́лый (gólyj, “bare, naked, nude”). Compare similar meaning and similar sounding Latin calvus (“bald”), Finnish kalju (“bald”), Persian کل (kal), and Sanskrit कुल्व (kulvá), which despite close resemblance to the Germanic and Slavic terms are probably false cognates with them, due to Grimm's law. Etymology templates: {{root|en|ine-pro|*gelH-}}, {{inh|en|enm|calwe|t=bald}} Middle English calwe (“bald”), {{inh|en|ang|calu|t=bare, bald, callow}} Old English calu (“bare, bald, callow”), {{inh|en|gmw-pro|*kalu}} Proto-West Germanic *kalu, {{inh|en|gem-pro|*kalwaz|t=bare, naked, bald}} Proto-Germanic *kalwaz (“bare, naked, bald”), {{der|en|ine-pro|*gelH-|*gel(H)wo-|t=bare, naked, bald}} Proto-Indo-European *gel(H)wo- (“bare, naked, bald”), {{cog|fy|keal|t=bald}} West Frisian keal (“bald”), {{cog|nl|kaal|t=bald}} Dutch kaal (“bald”), {{cog|nds-de|kahl|t=bald}} German Low German kahl (“bald”), {{cog|de|kahl|t=bald}} German kahl (“bald”), {{cog|sv|kal}} Swedish kal, {{m|sv|kalka|t=bald}} kalka (“bald”), {{cog|ru|го́лый|t=bare, naked, nude}} Russian го́лый (gólyj, “bare, naked, nude”), {{noncog|la|calvus|t=bald}} Latin calvus (“bald”), {{noncog|fi|kalju|t=bald}} Finnish kalju (“bald”), {{noncog|fa|کل|tr=kal}} Persian کل (kal), {{noncog|sa|कुल्व|tr=kulvá}} Sanskrit कुल्व (kulvá) Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} callow (countable and uncountable, plural callows)
  1. A callow young bird. Tags: countable, uncountable
    Sense id: en-callow-en-noun-X5uu~z1T
  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. Tags: countable, uncountable
    Sense id: en-callow-en-noun-6VfDCQHC Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with topic categories using raw markup Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 13 6 17 1 14 9 20 6 0 14 0 Disambiguation of English entries with topic categories using raw markup: 17 4 18 3 11 7 19 4 0 14 1
  3. An alluvial flat. Tags: countable, uncountable
    Sense id: en-callow-en-noun-gNCFxUuA

Inflected forms

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          "text": "The restless scrolling, the clammy self-reproach afterwards … we could recognise that as addiction quite easily, but the mathematical mechanism for having created it makes horrible sense (Lanier isn’t that interested in culprits, though he finds all of Silicon Valley pretty callow).",
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          "ref": "2019 May 8, Barney Ronay, “Liverpool’s waves of red fury and recklessness end in joyous bedlam”, in The Guardian",
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          "ref": "2011, Altea, Happiness Was a Red Cadillac, page 17",
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          "ref": "1883, Arthur Nicols, Zoological Notes on the Structure, Affinities, Habits, and Mental Faculties of Wild and Domestic Animals, page 104",
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          "ref": "2019 May 8, Barney Ronay, “Liverpool’s waves of red fury and recklessness end in joyous bedlam”, in The Guardian",
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      "roman": "neoperen",
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      "word": "höyhenetön"
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      "code": "de",
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      "sense": "unfledged",
      "word": "ungefiedert"
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      "sense": "unfledged",
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      "word": "scallta"
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      "code": "el",
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      "sense": "immature, lacking in life experience",
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      "word": "niedoświadczony"
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      "sense": "immature, lacking in life experience",
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      "word": "imaturo"
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      "word": "inexperiente"
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      "code": "hu",
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      "sense": "lacking color",
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      "roman": "slabovílʹnij",
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      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/3/35/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-callow.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-callow.wav.ogg",
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}

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