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mooncalf

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Definition:
1. A monster; a false conception; a mass of fleshy matter, generated in the uterus.
2. A dolt; a stupid fellow.

Noah Webster. Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
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"[...] And Lor-a-mussy me!" cried my sister, casting off her bonnet in sudden desperation, "here I stand talking to mere Mooncalfs, with Uncle Pumblechook waiting, and the mare catching cold at the door, and the boy grimed with crock and dirt from the hair of his head to the sole of his foot!"

Charles Dickens. Great Expectations (1861)
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VIRAG: (A diabolic rictus of black luminosity contracting his visage, cranes his scraggy neck forward. He lifts a mooncalf nozzle and howls.) Verfluchte Goim! He had a father, forty fathers.

James Joyce. Ulysses
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