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
When next we saw mooncalves they were some little distance away from us in a place of tumbled rocks.
From The First Men in the Moon by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells
And at the immediate mouth of the tunnel was a wide trampled space where the mooncalves had come and gone.
From The First Men in the Moon by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells
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 H. G. (Herbert George) Wells
"They must think we are mooncalves," said I, "to be frightened at that."
From The First Men in the Moon by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells
Education contains much moonshine; but not of the sort that makes mere mooncalves and idiots the slaves of a silver magnet, the one eye of the world.
From What's Wrong with the World by G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton
