calf love
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of calf love
First recorded in 1815–25
Example Sentences
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In the 24 years since young Jack Pickford played Willie Baxter in the silent screen version of Seventeen, cinemaddicts forgot how much charm there is in that classic of calf love on Main Street.
From Time Magazine Archive
But Edward Ellis, who helped make memorable the cheaply made quickie, A Man To Remember, does not turn the trick with this thin-spun tale of village politics, catty gossip, calf love.
From Time Magazine Archive
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.
From Dawson Black: Retail Merchant by Whitehead, Harold
But this is not the true calf love.
From Pebbles on the shore [by] Alpha of the plough by Gardiner, A. G. (Alfred George)
Most of the town young fellows of his age he found had a "girl" and almost every girl had a "fellow"; there was calf love in abundance, but he was a different brand of veal.
From The Portygee by Lincoln, Joseph Crosby
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