mooncalf

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The long-term effects of that mooncalf renaissance are impossible to gauge from here.

From Salon • Jun. 6, 2021

Prince Bumpo, the heir to the throne, is a mooncalf who mistakes fairy tales for real life, speaks in Elizabethan periphrasis and murmurs to himself: “If only I were a white prince!”

From New York Times • Sep. 9, 2020

By 1752, Dr. Johnson had begun to mock such reaching and its mooncalf hyperbole.

From The New Yorker • Mar. 3, 2016

Poe's childhood is a crystal ball wherein the seer discovers an im- placable inferiority feeling fastened upon the sensitive orphan son of an itinerant actress and a disinherited Baltimore mooncalf.

From Time Magazine Archive

He stared off into space with a dumb mooncalf look on his face that made you want to slap him.

From "The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate" by Jacqueline Kelly