Meaning of mooncalf | Babel Free

Definitions

1. An abnormal mass within the uterus; a false conception.
   archaic
2. A poorly conceived idea or plan.
3. A dreamer, someone absent-minded or distracted; a fool, simpleton.

Examples

“Thou art very Trinculo indeed! How camest thou to be the siege of this moon-calf? Can he vent Trinculos?”

““[…] you’re a jobbernowl and a doodle, a maundering mooncalf and a blockheaded numps, a gaby and a loon; you’re a Hatter!” I shrieked the last epithet.”

“But I can think of no one but a mooncalf or a gaby Who would trust their own child to raise a baby.”

“He slipped it softly onto her unresisting finger and, like the unwise moncalf he was, kissed it.”

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