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  • noun Plural form of mooncalf.

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Examples

  • It will be a rough ride, as you point out, the repercussions will be felt over here, but the mooncalves that have swallowed the stale socialist hackneyed agitprop, and regurgitate it on this blog, are blind to anything that shines light on the deceit and false promises of their Utopian nonsense.

    On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2008

  • When next we saw mooncalves they were some little distance away from us in a place of tumbled rocks.

    First Men in the Moon Herbert George 2006

  • Ever and again I stopped and reconnoitred, but there was no sign of Cavor, no sign of Selenites; and it seemed to me the mooncalves must have been driven into the interior again — I could see none of them.

    First Men in the Moon Herbert George 2006

  • “They must think we are mooncalves,” said I, “to be frightened at that.”

    First Men in the Moon Herbert George 2006

  • By contrast with the mooncalves he seemed a trivial being, a mere ant, scarcely five feet high.

    First Men in the Moon Herbert George 2006

  • There is an enormous system of caverns in which the mooncalves shelter during the night; and there are abattoirs and the like — in one of these it was that I and Bedford fought with the Selenite butchers — and I have since seen balloons laden with meat descending out of the upper dark.

    First Men in the Moon Herbert George 2006

  • We came upon another drove of mooncalves bellowing up a ravine, and then we passed over a place of sounds, sounds of beating machinery as if some huge hall of industry came near the surface there.

    First Men in the Moon Herbert George 2006

  • Rising one behind the other were long slopes and fields of trampled brown where the mooncalves had pastured, and far away in the full blaze of the sun a drove of them basked slumberously, scattered shapes, each with a blot of shadow against it like sheep on the side of a down.

    First Men in the Moon Herbert George 2006

  • The spiral gallery straightened into a steeply ascendent tunnel, its floor bearing abundant traces of the mooncalves, and so straight and short in proportion to its vast arch, that no part of it was absolutely dark.

    First Men in the Moon Herbert George 2006

  • I could see no signs of mooncalves or Selenites, nor could

    First Men in the Moon Herbert George 2006

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  • "The yeoman of the sheets called out 'One, two, three,' and they all bellowed 'Hoo, hoo, hoo' and slapped their backsides in unison, laughing like maniacs.

    "'Belay there,' roared Jack in a Cape Horn voice. 'Goddamned pack of mooncalves—is this a bawdy-house? The next man to slap his arse will have it flogged off him.'"

    --Patrick O'Brian, The Letter of Marque, 43

    February 27, 2008

  • Foo-Foo the First, King of the Mooncalves!

    -Twain.

    August 16, 2008