mooncalf
Example Sentences
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Then there are the beasts - not just Niffler, but Bowtruckle, Erumpent, Murtlaf and Mooncalf, to name a few.
From Washington Times
We’re drawn to romances because they give us something to aspire to; we know not to model ourselves after mooncalf lovers regardless of verisimilitude.
From Salon
By 1752, Dr. Johnson had begun to mock such reaching and its mooncalf hyperbole.
From The New Yorker
If the rejection came from an idiot, a blowhard or a mooncalf, a "rejection" is actually a backhanded compliment.
From Inc
The role offers a director a wide range of casting possibilities; I’ve never seen a Caliban so effectively convey the half-baked, unfinished quality that Shakespeare surely intended him to have, considering how often he is described as a “mooncalf,” an Elizabethan term for a malformed fetus.
From New York Times
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