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calf love
calf love
noun
Also called: puppy love.temporary infatuation or love of an adolescent for a member of the opposite sex
Word History and Origins
Origin of calf love1
Example Sentences
She was a widow, like Mater, and they had been schoolgirls together, and Mrs. Twombley had been one of the episodes of my father's period of calf love.
“I beg,” Jacob said with dignity, “that you will not compare your calf love for a picture-postcard young lady with what might easily have been a great passion.”
I expended the last of my calf love on Mrs. Kaye.
Fifteen and twenty-two is usually the way of calf loves.
Nevertheless, he ascended her steps at exactly half-past eight with the blood pounding in his ears and his heart acting like a schoolboy's in his first attack of calf love.
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