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Meaning of "calf love" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF CALF LOVE

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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF CALF LOVE

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Calf love is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES CALF LOVE MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Puppy love

Puppy love is an informal term for feelings of love, romance, or infatuation, often felt by young people during their childhood and adolescence. It is named for its resemblance to the adoring, worshipful affection that may be felt by a puppy. It may also be able to describe short-term love interest. The term is often used in a derogatory fashion, describing emotions which are shallow and transient in comparison to other forms of love such as romantic love. Sigmund Freud, however, was far from underestimating the power of early love; recognised the validity of "the proverbial durability of first loves: on reviendra toujours à ses premières amours."...

Definition of calf love in the English dictionary

The definition of calf love in the dictionary is temporary infatuation or love of an adolescent for a member of the opposite sex Also called: puppy love.

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE CALF LOVE

calendric
calendrical
calendry
calends
calendula
calenture
calesa
calescence
calescent
calf
calf diphtheria
calf´s-foot jelly
calfdozer
calfless
calflike
calfskin
Calgary
Calgon
Cali
caliatour

WORDS THAT END LIKE CALF LOVE

clove
courtly love
cupboard love
declaration of love
fall in love
for love
free love
glove
in love
labour of love
lad´s love
love
make love
mother love
puppy love
romantic love
self-love
tough love
truelove
unlove

Synonyms and antonyms of calf love in the English dictionary of synonyms

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Translation of «calf love» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF CALF LOVE

Find out the translation of calf love to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of calf love from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «calf love» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

犊情深
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

amor de becerro
570 millions of speakers

English

calf love
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

बछड़ा प्यार
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

العجل الحب
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

теленка любовь
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

amor bezerro
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

বাছুরের ভালবাসা
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

amour de veau
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Cinta betis
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Kalb Liebe
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

ふくらはぎの愛
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

송아지 사랑
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Pedhet cinta
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

bê tình yêu
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

கன்று காதல்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

वासराला प्रेम
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

Buzağı aşkı
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

amore vitello
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

cielę miłość
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

теляти любов
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

vițel de dragoste
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

αγάπη μοσχάρι
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

kalf liefde
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

kalv kärlek
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

kalv kjærlighet
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of calf love

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «CALF LOVE»

The term «calf love» is used very little and occupies the 162.125 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «CALF LOVE» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about calf love

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «CALF LOVE»

Discover the use of calf love in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to calf love and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Scottish Dictionary and Supplement: In Four Volumes. Suppl. ...
V. Kail. CALF-COUNTRY, Calf-ground, s. The place of one's nativity, or where one has been brought up, S. ; CaZ^being pron. Cawf. CALF-LOVE, Cawf-love, s. Love in a very early stage of life; an attachment formed before reason has begun to ...
John Jamieson, 1841
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A Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language ...: ...
Colewort. V. Kail. CALF-COUNTRY, Calf-ground, s. The place of one's nativity, or where one has been brought up, S. ; Calf being pron. Cawf. CALF-LOVE, Cawf- love, s. Love in a very early stage of life; an attachment formed before reason has  ...
John Jamieson, 1825
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25 Favorite Novels: Pride and Prejudice, Sense and ...
CALF-LOVE. One day, for some reason or other, Mr. Gibson came home unexpectedly. He was crossing the hall, having come in by the garden-door—the garden communicated with the stable-yard, where he had left his horse—when the ...
Jane Austen, Various, L. M. Montgomery, 2011
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Everybody's Magazine
The public was ready for this story of calf love and small town life. Mr. Tarkington chose the most interesting time in a boy's life, that time when he draws away from his mother and then, through his first disappointment in love, comes back to her ...
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The Works
CHAPTEE V CALF-LOVE THE cause for the change in Mr. Gibson's wishes just referred to was as follows. It has been mentioned that he took pupils — rather against his inclination, it is true ; but there they were, a Mr. Wynne and a Mr. Coxe , ...
Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
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Love, Sex, and Marriage: A Historical Thesaurus
L.04/0 1.0 1.0 1.01 Puppy love see L/01.01.02 Excessive Love, L.02.03 Doting, L. 04/01.01.01 Infatutation romantic attachment between a boy and a girl, n: calf- love 1823 — ; love's young dream al834 — ; puppy-love [1834 — derog]; calf- rash ...
Julie Coleman, 1999
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The Negro Traditions
Wen de folkses wus got 'em down dar fer de trial by de Pizen tree; Horn wus already put on de shoes an' de mittens w'at he wus maked outn de hide of his calf , Love. None of de folkses didn' know why nor how he wus got 'em. Some sayed ...
Thomas W. Talley, Charles K. Wolfe, Laura C. Jarman, 1996
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The Life of Mansie Wauch, Tailor in Dalkeith
CALF-LOVE. Botmy lassie, will ye go, will ye go, will ye go, Bonny lassie, w ill ye go to the Blrks of Aberfeidy ? For a tailor is a man, a man, a man, And a tailor U a man. Popular Song. THE long and the short is, that I was sent to school, where I ...
Mansie Wauch, 1828
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Find a Good Man and Keep Him
True love also is distinguishable from its appendices and appendages, such as puppy love or calf-love, erotic love, platonic love, and so on. Puppy-love generally refers to adolescent romance, often used in an uncomplimentary sense .
Satch U. Ejike, 2008
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The Snake and the Rope: A Jungian View of Hinduism
Calf-love is the kind of affection a mother cow is said to have for her calf—here, a fond, protective “devotion” (bhakti, BUCK-tee) toward divinity as a Baby. It is a feeling not unlike that expressed by Christmas carolers who sing of “loving Lord ...
Ph. D. George R. Elder, Elder, 2012

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «CALF LOVE»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term calf love is used in the context of the following news items.
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Secrets to Create Everlasting Love
You want to turn your calf love to everlasting love at any cost. Follow few tips for everlasting love & make your love life more interesting. «BoldSky, Feb 15»
2
The unethicality of teacher-student hookups
Young students are impressionable and often tend to develop what psychologists call "calf love" or "puppy love" for their teachers and thus are ... «Merinews, Feb 15»
3
Media freedom fighter under police protection
Zagreb was and still is one of Matic's calf love, not only due to his cooperation with the cult Radio 101, but also due to the fact that he spent part ... «B92, Oct 13»
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Newspaper stories from the past: Read accounts from 1909 …
It did not cool the ardor of the serious attack of calf love on the part of the affinity, neither did it have the effect it should on the part of McCully. «Peoria Journal Star, Mar 13»
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Unintended consequences of laws
Perhaps, it was calf love. After all, school boys' standards in these matters are notoriously lax, as indeed, it would seem, for adults of a riper age ... «Hindu Business Line, Nov 12»
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Calf love as cat gets it licked
Calf love as cat gets it licked. A FRIENDLY cat gets more than he bargained for as he sidles up to a calf – an affectionate lick behind the ears. «Express.co.uk, Jun 12»
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'Timmy Time' Through a Grown Up's Eyes
cured by a popped beach ball. And the hopping lamb-calf love they use to celebrate is legendary. This is definitely one I'd watch on my own. «The Stir, Nov 10»
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Who Was Charles Dickens?
It's easy to see in retrospect that his feelings for her were calf love, but they were passionate, long-lasting, and led to intense humiliation. «The New York Review of Books, May 10»
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What would Buddy Holly make of today's world?
Calf love and teenage heartache. He was the boy next door who mothers didn't mind taking their daughter out. He probably wore cavalry twill ... «Mirror.co.uk, Feb 09»
10
Boy meets world
"He has outgrown calf love and falling for the elder sister type," Tan reasons. There's another reason Tan regards Xiao Chuan as a failure: ... «China Daily, Nov 08»

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« EDUCALINGO. Calf love [online]. Available <https://educalingo.com/en/dic-en/calf-love>. May 2024 ».
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