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moon·calf    Audio Help   [moon-kaf, -kahf] Pronunciation Key
–noun, plural -calves.
1.a congenitally grossly deformed and mentally defective person.
2.a foolish person.
3.a person who spends time idly daydreaming.

[Origin: 1555–65; moon + calf1]
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moon·calf    Audio Help   (mōōn'kāf', -käf')  Pronunciation Key 
n.  
  1. A fool.
  2. A freak.


[Earlier, unformed embryo (from the supposed influence of the moon).]

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Mooncalf

Moon"calf`\, n. 1. A monster; a false conception; a mass of fleshy matter, generated in the uterus.

2. A dolt; a stupid fellow. --Dryden.

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