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–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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n.

A fool.
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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