mooncalf

• No competency of any kind ever threatened to pull Morrissey out of his mooncalf reverie; for Morrissey, hopelessness was never a pose. —  Slate Magazine
• That I and my goodwife should have bred up a mooncalf! —  The Herd Boy and His Hermit
• Put it under your pillow and hug it, you great big mooncalf! —  Skippy Bedelle His Sentimental Progress From the Urchin to the Complete Man of the World
• I turned and saw a knight, who asked me why I gaped like a mooncalf at the torn bird. —  King Arthur's Knights The Tales Re-told for Boys ; Girls
• Caliban is a mooncalf, and his origin is distinctly traced to a source of this description. —  Elizabethan Demonology

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