Callow definition
A callow young man.
A forty year old man with the maturity level of a fifteen year old is an example of callow.
Those three young men are particularly callow youths.
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Origin of callow
- Middle English calwe bald from Old English calu
From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
- 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”).
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