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Sallower vs Callower - What's the difference?

sallower | callower |

As adjectives the difference between sallower and callower

is that sallower is (sallow) while callower is (callow).

sallower

English

Adjective

(head)
  • (sallow)

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    sallow

    English

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) salowe, from (etyl) salu, from (etyl) ).

    Adjective

    (er)
  • (lb) Yellowish skin colour.
  • # Of a sickly pale colour.
  • #*
  • #*:Then his sallow face brightened, for the hall had been carefully furnished, and was very clean. ¶ There was a neat hat-and-umbrella stand, and the stranger's weary feet fell soft on a good, serviceable dark-red drugget, which matched in colour the flock-paper on the walls.
  • #(lb) Of a tan colour, associated with people from southern Europe or East Asia.
  • #*2007 , David McWilliams, " We must begin the culture debate", 23 December:
  • #*:The girls are mostly Slavic-pretty, long-limbed with high cheekbones, sallow skin and green eyes. They are the closest thing to supermodels that Mulhuddart has ever seen.
  • #*2012 , Aisling, " Am I pink or yellow? How to choose the right foundation tone. And what is the deal with Mac foundations?" beaut.ie (17 January):
  • #*:A yellow undertone is often found on people with sallow skin – e.g. Asian.
  • #*2012 , Billy Keane, " I feel so much for Mickey. Maybe there is peace for him in sport", Irish Independent (13 June):
  • #*:She had such lovely sallow skin, the handsome high cheekbones of the north with the brown conker-colour eyes and the dark silken hair.
  • Dirty; murky.

    • Etymology 2

    From (etyl) salwe, from (etyl) sealh, from (etyl) (compare Welsh helyg, Latin salix), probably originally a borrowing from some other language.

    Noun

    (wikipedia sallow) (en noun)
  • A European willow, Salix caprea , that has broad leaves, large catkins and tough wood.
  • *1819 , Keats, :
  • *:Then in a wailful choir the small gnats mourn
  • *:Among the river sallows , borne aloft
  • *:Or sinking as the light wind lives or dies;
  • Willow twigs.
  • * (and other bibliographic details) Fawkes
    • Bend the pliant sallow to a shield.
  • * (and other bibliographic details) Emerson
    • The sallow knows the basketmaker's thumb.
    Derived terms
    * ) * sallow flute

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    callower

    English

    Adjective

    (head)
  • (callow)

    • 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.

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