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moon calf

[moon-kaf, -kahf]

moon·calf

[moon-kaf, -kahf]
noun, plural -calves.
1.
a congenitally grossly deformed and mentally defective person.
2.
a foolish person.
3.
a person who spends time idly daydreaming.

Origin:
1555–65; moon + calf1
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Moon calf is always a great word to know.
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a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
an arrangement of five objects, as trees, in a square or rectangle, one at each corner and one in the middle.
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