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
But Doinel, the eternal mooncalf, is lured away by a Japanese girl.
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
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
You forget," he said, "that these mooncalves neither think nor reason.
From The Maid of Honour (Vol. 3 of 3) A Tale of the Dark Days of France by Lewis Wingfield
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 H. G. (Herbert George) Wells
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 H. G. (Herbert George) Wells
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 H. G. (Herbert George) Wells
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