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mooncalf

[ moon-kaf, -kahf ]

noun

plural mooncalves.
  1. a congenitally grossly deformed and mentally defective person.
  2. a foolish person.
  3. a person who spends time idly daydreaming.


mooncalf

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noun

  1. a born fool; dolt
  2. a person who idles time away
  3. obsolete.
    a freak or monster
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged†2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Origin of mooncalf1

First recorded in 1555–65; moon + calf 1
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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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