"mooncalf" meaning in English

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          "text": "Thou art very Trinculo indeed! How camest thou to be the siege of this moon-calf? Can he vent Trinculos?",
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        "An abnormal mass within the uterus; a false conception."
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        "(now rare) An abnormal mass within the uterus; a false conception."
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          "ref": "1902, John Kendrick Bangs, chapter 10, in Olympian Nights, New York: Harper & Bros., page 185:",
          "text": "“[…] 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.",
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          "ref": "1957, Ogden Nash, “Come On In, The Senility Is Fine”, in You Can’t Get There From Here, Boston: Little, Brown & Co., page 66:",
          "text": "But I can think of no one but a mooncalf or a gaby\nWho would trust their own child to raise a baby.",
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          "ref": "1978, Lawrence Durrell, Livia (Avignon Quintet), Faber & Faber, published 1992, page 463:",
          "text": "He slipped it softly onto her unresisting finger and, like the unwise moncalf he was, kissed it.",
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