calf love

noun

1. puppy love.

calf love

noun

1. temporary infatuation or love of an adolescent for a member of the opposite sex Also calledpuppy love

Word History and Origins

Origin of calf love¹

First recorded in 1815–25

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.

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“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.”

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I expended the last of my calf love on Mrs. Kaye.

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Fifteen and twenty-two is usually the way of calf loves.

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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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