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Callow vs Calloo - What's the difference?

callow | calloo |

As nouns the difference between callow and calloo

is that callow is a callow young bird while calloo is the long-tailed duck, clangula hyemalis , an arctic sea duck.

As an adjective callow

is (obsolete) bald.

callow

English

Adjective

(en-adj)
  • (obsolete) Bald.
  • Unfledged (of a young bird).
  • * Dryden
    • And in the leafy summit spy'd a nest, / Which, o'er the callow young, a sparrow pressed.
  • Immature, lacking in life experience.
    • Those three young men are particularly callow youths.
  • Lacking color or firmness (of some kinds of insects or other arthropods, such as spiders, just after ecdysis). Teneral.
  • Shallow or weak-willed.
  • Unburnt (of a brick)

    • Noun

  • A callow young bird.
  • 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.

    • Anagrams

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    calloo

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The long-tailed duck, Clangula hyemalis , an Arctic sea duck.
  • * 1989 , (Keith Bosley), translating Elias Lönnrot, The Kalevala , IV:
    • This is how the luckless feel / how the calloos think— / like hard snow under a ridge / like water in a deep well.
  • * 2012 , Richard Williamson, West Sussex Gazette , 8 Jan 2012:
    • The Scots called it the ‘wild calloo ’ from the unearthly call it had which seemed almost to bewitch fisher-folk hunting for herring in calm autumn nights off the Scottish Isles.