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
Unlike Salinger's magic Holden Caulfield, Decker is inarticulate, and the internal musings of this gilded mooncalf are gruesomely awkward.
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
He takes at last no interest in the deeper part of the moon; he regards all Selenites not equally versed in mooncalves with indifference, derision, or hostility.
From The First Men in the Moon by Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)
By contrast with the mooncalves he seemed a trivial being, a mere ant, scarcely five feet high.
From The First Men in the Moon by Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)
I could see no signs of mooncalves or Selenites, nor could I see Cavor, but I could see my handkerchief far off, spread out on its thicket of thorns.
From The First Men in the Moon by Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)
I think I forgot the Selenites, the mooncalves, the lid, and the noises completely so soon as I had eaten that fungus.
From The First Men in the Moon by Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)
Whether they had fled on our emergence from the interior passages, or whether they were accustomed to retire after driving out the mooncalves, I cannot guess.
From The First Men in the Moon by Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)
