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mooncalf

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8 lettersPronunciation /ˈmuːnkɑːf/Sorted acflmnooStarts with MEnds with F0 clues
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Definitions

  1. An abnormal mass within the uterus; a false conception.

Word origin

From moon + calf, after a superstition that the moon caused abnormal fetal development.

Used in a sentence

  • Thou art very Trinculo indeed! How camest thou to be the siege of this moon-calf? Can he vent Trinculos?
  • “[…] you’re a jobbernowl and a doodle, a maundering mooncalf and a blockheaded numps, a gaby and a loon; you’re a Hatter!” I shrieked the last epithet.
  • But I can think of no one but a mooncalf or a gaby Who would trust their own child to raise a baby.

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