subs. (common).—A youthful, romantic fancy. [A sarcastic allusion to the blind unreasoning character of boy and girl attachments.]
1823. GALT, The Entail, I., xxxii., 284. I made a CALF-LOVE marriage. [M.]
1863. GASKELL, Sylvia’s Lovers, II., 104. It’s a girl’s fancy—just a kind o’ CALF-LOVE; let it go by.
1884. Longman’s Magazine, IV., 50. I was still at the early and agonising stage of the passion which is popularly known as CALF-LOVE.
