Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Skilled; expert; shrewd.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective rare Characterized by cunning or shrewdness; crafty.

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  • adjective Characterized by cunning or shrewdness; crafty.

Etymologies

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Latin callidus, from callere to be thick-skinned, to be hardened, from callum, callus, callous skin, callosity, callousness.

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  • early caller-id

    September 7, 2010

  • He feigned to be feeble and pallid

    So illness might seem to be valid.

    He languished with skill,

    As clever boys will.

    Though lazy the young man was callid.

    May 13, 2015