mooncalf
/ˈmunˌkæf/
noun
- A foolish or absent-minded person; someone who is dreamy or not very practical.
- He's such a mooncalf that he forgot his own birthday.
- The old professor was a gentle mooncalf, always lost in his books.
- Don't be a mooncalf — pay attention to the road when you're driving.
- A person who is born with a physical or mental abnormality; a monster or deformed creature (archaic or literary).
- Villagers whispered that the deformed lamb was a mooncalf.
- The play mentions a mooncalf born under a strange lunar eclipse.
- In medieval stories, a mooncalf was sometimes seen as a bad omen.
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