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mooncalf
[ moon-kaf, -kahf ]
noun
plural mooncalves.
- a congenitally grossly deformed and mentally defective person.
- a foolish person.
- a person who spends time idly daydreaming.
mooncalf
/ ˈ³¾³Ü˲ÔËŒ°ìÉ‘Ë´Ú /
noun
- a born fool; dolt
- a person who idles time away
- obsolete.a freak or monster
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The long-term effects of that mooncalf renaissance are impossible to gauge from here.
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Prince Bumpo, the heir to the throne, is a mooncalf who mistakes fairy tales for real life, speaks in Elizabethan periphrasis and murmurs to himself: “If only I were a white prince!â€
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“You’re a mooncalf,†she said.
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He stared off into space with a dumb mooncalf look on his face that made you want to slap him.
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Then there are those beasts that, due to cleverness or innate shyness, avoid contact with Muggles at all costs—for instance, the unicorn, the Mooncalf and the centaur.
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