Definitions

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  • adjective Resembling a calf (young cow) or some aspect of one.

Etymologies

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calf +‎ -like

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Examples

  • But it would be less humorous, and less tragic, if this prologue did not also serve as an appropriate introduction to the author, who makes us, as readers, complicit in mocking the "calflike" enthusiasm of the ghetto faithful and their endless machinations.

    unknown title 2009

  • But it would be less humorous, and less tragic, if this prologue did not also serve as an appropriate introduction to the author, who makes us, as readers, complicit in mocking the "calflike" enthusiasm of the ghetto faithful and their endless machinations.

    unknown title 2009

  • Arkady had noticed before that Vanko, with his stolid manner and calflike fringe of hair, seemed to have keys to everything, as if he were the town custodian.

    Wolves Eat Dogs Smith, Martin Cruz, 1942- 2004

  • And she had worn her blue dress to the Collinses ', where young Cecil Collins had touched and rather embarrassed her — and amused Luke — with his calflike admiration.

    Heartless Balogh, Mary 1995

  • Behind him he heard Rosalie's voice, caressing, tormenting by turns; and, glancing around for her victim, beheld Grandcourt at heel in calflike adoration.

    The Danger Mark A. B. [Illustrator] Wenzell 1899

  • History "; there was no chatter of girls from hall and stairway to distract the loftier inspirations that possessed him, no intermittent soprano noises emitted by fluttering feminine fashion, no calflike barytones from masculine adolescence to drive him to the woods, where it was always rather difficult for him to focus his attention on printed pages.

    The Danger Mark A. B. [Illustrator] Wenzell 1899

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