Today's Word "callow"
Published in Vocabulary
callow \KAL-oh\ (adjective) - Immature; lacking adult perception, experience, or judgment.
"He was callow, even for a subaltern. He was callow all over — like a canary that had not finished fledging itself." -- Rudyard Kipling, 'The Rescue of Pluffles'
Callow is from Old English calu, "featherless, bald."
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