mooncalf
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mooncalf (plural mooncalves)
- (now rare) An abnormal mass within the uterus; a false conception. [from 16th c.]
- A poorly-conceived idea or plan. [from 17th c.]
- A dreamer, someone absent-minded or distracted; a fool, simpleton. [from 17th c.]
- Ogden Nash, "Come On In, The Senility Is Fine":
- But I can think of no one but a mooncalf or a gaby / Who would trust their own child to raise a baby.
- 1978, Lawrence Durrell, Livia, Faber & Faber 1992 (Avignon Quintet), p. 463:
- He slipped it softly onto her unresisting finger and, like the unwise moncalf he was, kissed it.
- Ogden Nash, "Come On In, The Senility Is Fine":
