Meaning & use
mooncalves
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Foolish or slow-witted people, an archaic and literary plural of "mooncalf," once also used for a malformed birth.
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The old tale described the mooncalves as gentle but slow-witted creatures born under a full moon.
Shakespeare has Trinculo mock Caliban as a mooncalf, a term later softened into whimsical fantasy creatures.
A note on using this word
"Mooncalf" appears in Shakespeare's The Tempest and was later reimagined as a gentle magical beast in modern fantasy fiction.
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