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Wallower vs Callower - What's the difference?

wallower | callower |

As a noun wallower

is agent noun of wallow; one who wallows.

As an adjective callower is

(callow).

wallower

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • Agent noun of wallow; one who wallows.
  • (dated, engineering) A lantern wheel; a trundle.
  • * 1847 , Edward Cresy, An Encyclopaedia of Civil Engineering, Historical, Theoretical, and Practical
    • At each end of the water-wheel is a vertical shaft with wallowers
    English agent nouns

    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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