mooncalfn.

Brit.

/ˈmuːnkɑːf/, U.S.

/ˈmunˌkæf/

Inflections: Plural mooncalves.

Forms: see moon n.¹ and calf n.¹

Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: moon n.¹, calf n.¹

Etymology: < moon n.¹ + calf n.¹ With sense 3 compare German Mondkalb (16th cent.) and also, with different second element (see child n.), Dutch maankind (c1655), German Mondkind.

†a. A mole (mole n.⁴), a false conception. Obsolete (rare after the 17th cent.).Formerly regarded as being produced by the influence of the moon.

ΘΚΠ

the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of internal organs > disorders of pregnancy or birth > [noun] > false conception or pregnancy

molaa1398

mole?c1425

maw mother?c1475

mooncalf1565

whetstone1580

cushion1600

false conception1601

pseudocyesis1859

pseudopregnancy1860

1565 T. Cooper Thesaurus at Mola A moone calfe (in the womans woumbe).

1580 T. Newton Approoued Med. f. 93^v A Mole in a womans body, otherwise called a whetston, or a moone Calfe.

1594 T. Bowes tr. P. de la Primaudaye French Acad. II. 387 The moone calfes in the womb, which fall out often.

1615 H. Crooke Μικροκοσμογραϕια 193 The signes of the Mola or Moon-calfe.

1658 tr. G. della Porta Nat. Magick ii. ii. 29 A certain woman..brought forth in stead of a child, four Creatures like to frogs... But this was a kind of a Moon-calf.

1917 Dial. Notes 4 415 Moon-calf... In mountaineer's superstition, a shapeless thing, without life, that a steer causes in a cow by worrying her.

b. An ill-conceived idea, enterprise, or undertaking. Now rare.

ΚΠ

1644 Prerogative Anatomized 12 The Parliament is in labour of a Moon-Calfe.

1648 G. Withers Prosopopœia Britannica 99 And, then Democracies production shall A Moone-calfe be.

1834 T. Carlyle Sartor Resartus iii. x. 99/1 England..offers precisely the elements..in which such moon-calves and monstrosities are best generated.

1837 T. Carlyle French Revol. III. i. vii. 66 This huge mooncalf of Sansculottism.

a1849 H. Coleridge Ess. & Marginalia (1851) I. 85 We have seen writers..irrationally furious when the mooncalves of their brain have been undergoing the rod of criticism.

1981 Amer. Lit. 53 521 The original Tender Is the Night, not Cowley's mooncalf, is just as good.

a. colloquial. A born fool; a congenital idiot; a simpleton.

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the world > health and disease > mental health > mental illness > mental deficiency > [noun] > person

congeonc1285

idiota1400

foola1425

natural foolc1450

natural idiot1497

natural1533

changeling1577

weakling1577

mooncalf1586

slimslack1600

aufe1621

oaf1638

weak-wit1656

underwit1682

imbecile1830

ament1871

unfortunate1881

balmy1903

subnormal1905

deficient1906

retard1909

retardate1912

retarded1912

mopoke1946

retardee1956

mong1980

1586 Praise of Musicke ii. 31 Cast not away chastisement vpon so base and vnexpert a person... Diogenes was troubled with the like moone calfe, whom as often as he mette him welcomed with this salutation, Salue galle, God speed cock.

1627 M. Drayton (title) The moone-calfe. Stultorum plena sunt omnia.

a1637 B. Jonson Newes from New World 235 in Wks. (1640) III Pr.: Moone-Calves! what Monster is that?.. 2 Her.: Monster? none at all; a very familiar thing, like our foole here on earth.]

1693 J. Dryden tr. Juvenal in J. Dryden et al. tr. Juvenal Satires vi. 120 The Potion..turns his Brain, and stupifies his Mind. The sotted Moon-Calf gapes.

1765 J. Beattie Verses Charles Churchill 5 Fame,..What half-made mooncalf can mistake for good?

1818 W. Scott Heart of Mid-Lothian v, in Tales of my Landlord 2nd Ser. II. 116 If he is as you say, d'ye think he'll ever marry a moon-calf like Madge?

1886 R. L. Stevenson Kidnapped v. 44 ‘No,’ said the poor moon-calf, changing his tune at once.

1982 ‘C. J. Cherryh’ Merchanter's Luck vii. 85 If I thought you were the mooncalf dockside paints you, I'd give you the standard lecture.

†b. A fickle, unstable person. Obsolete.For the moon's association with fickleness, see moon n.¹ 1b.

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the world > time > change > changeableness > [noun] > changeable person or thing

weathercocka1300

wind?a1513

Proteus1528

chameleon1586

moon's man1598

vane1598

mooncalf1607

remover1609

tarand1641

inconstant1647

mutables1652

changeablea1711

kaleidoscope1819

phantasmagoria1822

palimpsest1845

variable1846

the mind > will > decision > irresolution or vacillation > inconstancy > [noun] > inconstant person or thing > inconstant person

starter1519

changeling1539

flirt1577

Protean1598

weathercock1598

changerc1600

mooncalf1607

minute jacka1616

a nose of wax1821

sugar stick1825

wax-nosea1843

in-and-outer1905

brainstormer1907

1607 G. Chapman Bussy D'Ambois iv. 43 Women..Are the most perfect images of the Moone (Or still-vnweand sweet Moon-calues with white faces).

1647 J. Trapp Comm. Evangelists & Acts (Acts xxii. 19) I shall be counted a Moon-calf; a Retraxit shall be entred against me.

1656 J. Trapp Comm. 1 Tim. iii. 8 Ministers must neither be Sea-calves, nor Moon-calves; double-tongued, nor unstable, or double-minded.

c. A person who idles time away in dreaming; someone absent-minded, distracted, or given to sentimentality. Cf. calf n.¹ 1c.

ΘΚΠ

the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > one who sees > [noun] > watcher of other specific things

waitera1425

mooncalfa1627

sightman1794

skywatcher1889

horse-watcher1894

coast-watcher1916

spotter1944

leaf peeper1965

leaf freak1974

the mind > attention and judgement > inattention > mental wandering > abstraction, absent-mindedness > [noun] > person

mooncalfa1627

a1627 T. Middleton No Wit (1657) i. 9 One weatherwise [= a name],..Observes the Full and Change; an arrant Moon-Calf.

1826 B. Disraeli Vivian Grey II. iii. vi. 64 I have been playing, I fear, the mooncalf to-night; and find, that, though I am a late watcher, I am not a solitary one.

1841 C. Dickens Barnaby Rudge vi. 267 Instead of standing gaping at her, like an old mooncalf as I am!

1904 M. Corelli God's Good Man xxvi. 498 It [sc. the note] merely ran: ‘Goodbye Moon-calf! Am going away.’

1993 E. Galford Dyke & Dybuk (BNC) 197 Clint, it seems, has turned into a mooncalf. ‘Stop slavering,’ I snap. ‘Someone else is starring in her bedtime story.’

1994 Denver Post 16 Jan. f3/5 Well, call me a mooncalf if you must, but I think it was a very nice law.

†3. A deformed animal; a monster. Obsolete. rare.

ΘΚΠ

the world > health and disease > ill health > deformity > [noun] > abnormally-formed fetus

monstera1400

scarth?a1513

mooncalfa1616

pretergeneration1640

misbirth1648

terata1902

embryopathy1917

thalidomide baby1962

thalidomide child1971

a1616 W. Shakespeare Tempest (1623) ii. ii. 135 How now Moone-Calfe .

1817 S. T. Coleridge Zapolya i. i. 55 Glycine: Madam, that wood is haunted by the war-wolves, Vampires, and monstrous—Sarolta (with a smile): Moon-calves, credulous girl!

4. An animal imagined to inhabit the moon.

ΘΚΠ

the world > the supernatural > supernatural being > mythical creature or object > [noun] > imaginary persons or creatures

man in the moon1596

Briarean1598

phantasim1598

mooncalf1638

splacknuck1726

Idomenian1764

little green man1802

ring-tailed roarer1828

Belsnickel1830

ice worm1830

catawampus1843

whangdoodle1852

Prince Charming1855

boojum1876

snark1879

Easter rabbit1881

Easter bunny1900

death moth1910

Moomin1950

energy vampire1967

tooth fairy1977

1638 Bp. J. Wilkins Discov. World in Moone viii. 113 Thus Avicenna relates the Story of a Calfe which fell downe in a storme, the beholders thinking it a Moon-calfe, and that it fell thence.

1831 Reformers' Gaz. 31 Dec. 77 A clear streamlet purls along at his feet, and moon calves are seen browsing on the velvet turf around him.

1901 H. G. Wells First Men in Moon xi. 116 We saw..the mooncalf's shining sides... First of all impressions was its enormous size; the girth of its body was some fourscore feet, its length perhaps two hundred.

1901 H. G. Wells First Men in Moon xi. 120 We came upon another drove of mooncalves bellowing up a ravine.

1955 Times 11 Aug. 7/4 It will be nice if, when we make our landfall on the moon, we find the mooncalves prodding their craters with a noiseless drill.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2002; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

单词	mooncalf
释义	mooncalfn. Brit. /ˈmuːnkɑːf/, U.S. /ˈmunˌkæf/ Inflections: Plural mooncalves. Forms: see moon n.¹ and calf n.¹ Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: moon n.¹, calf n.¹ Etymology: < moon n.¹ + calf n.¹ With sense 3 compare German Mondkalb (16th cent.) and also, with different second element (see child n.), Dutch maankind (c1655), German Mondkind. 1. †a. A mole (mole n.⁴), a false conception. Obsolete (rare after the 17th cent.).Formerly regarded as being produced by the influence of the moon. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of internal organs > disorders of pregnancy or birth > [noun] > false conception or pregnancy molaa1398 mole?c1425 maw mother?c1475 mooncalf1565 whetstone1580 cushion1600 false conception1601 pseudocyesis1859 pseudopregnancy1860 1565 T. Cooper Thesaurus at Mola A moone calfe (in the womans woumbe). 1580 T. Newton Approoued Med. f. 93^v A Mole in a womans body, otherwise called a whetston, or a moone Calfe. 1594 T. Bowes tr. P. de la Primaudaye French Acad. II. 387 The moone calfes in the womb, which fall out often. 1615 H. Crooke Μικροκοσμογραϕια 193 The signes of the Mola or Moon-calfe. 1658 tr. G. della Porta Nat. Magick ii. ii. 29 A certain woman..brought forth in stead of a child, four Creatures like to frogs... But this was a kind of a Moon-calf. 1917 Dial. Notes 4 415 Moon-calf... In mountaineer's superstition, a shapeless thing, without life, that a steer causes in a cow by worrying her. b. An ill-conceived idea, enterprise, or undertaking. Now rare. ΚΠ 1644 Prerogative Anatomized 12 The Parliament is in labour of a Moon-Calfe. 1648 G. Withers Prosopopœia Britannica 99 And, then Democracies production shall A Moone-calfe be. 1834 T. Carlyle Sartor Resartus iii. x. 99/1 England..offers precisely the elements..in which such moon-calves and monstrosities are best generated. 1837 T. Carlyle French Revol. III. i. vii. 66 This huge mooncalf of Sansculottism. a1849 H. Coleridge Ess. & Marginalia (1851) I. 85 We have seen writers..irrationally furious when the mooncalves of their brain have been undergoing the rod of criticism. 1981 Amer. Lit. 53 521 The original Tender Is the Night, not Cowley's mooncalf, is just as good. 2. a. colloquial. A born fool; a congenital idiot; a simpleton. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > mental health > mental illness > mental deficiency > [noun] > person congeonc1285 idiota1400 foola1425 natural foolc1450 natural idiot1497 natural1533 changeling1577 weakling1577 mooncalf1586 slimslack1600 aufe1621 oaf1638 weak-wit1656 underwit1682 imbecile1830 ament1871 unfortunate1881 balmy1903 subnormal1905 deficient1906 retard1909 retardate1912 retarded1912 mopoke1946 retardee1956 mong1980 1586 Praise of Musicke ii. 31 Cast not away chastisement vpon so base and vnexpert a person... Diogenes was troubled with the like moone calfe, whom as often as he mette him welcomed with this salutation, Salue galle, God speed cock. 1627 M. Drayton (title) The moone-calfe. Stultorum plena sunt omnia. a1637 B. Jonson Newes from New World 235 in Wks. (1640) III Pr.: Moone-Calves! what Monster is that?.. 2 Her.: Monster? none at all; a very familiar thing, like our foole here on earth.] 1693 J. Dryden tr. Juvenal in J. Dryden et al. tr. Juvenal Satires vi. 120 The Potion..turns his Brain, and stupifies his Mind. The sotted Moon-Calf gapes. 1765 J. Beattie Verses Charles Churchill 5 Fame,..What half-made mooncalf can mistake for good? 1818 W. Scott Heart of Mid-Lothian v, in Tales of my Landlord 2nd Ser. II. 116 If he is as you say, d'ye think he'll ever marry a moon-calf like Madge? 1886 R. L. Stevenson Kidnapped v. 44 ‘No,’ said the poor moon-calf, changing his tune at once. 1982 ‘C. J. Cherryh’ Merchanter's Luck vii. 85 If I thought you were the mooncalf dockside paints you, I'd give you the standard lecture. †b. A fickle, unstable person. Obsolete.For the moon's association with fickleness, see moon n.¹ 1b. ΘΚΠ the world > time > change > changeableness > [noun] > changeable person or thing weathercocka1300 wind?a1513 Proteus1528 chameleon1586 moon's man1598 vane1598 mooncalf1607 remover1609 tarand1641 inconstant1647 mutables1652 changeablea1711 kaleidoscope1819 phantasmagoria1822 palimpsest1845 variable1846 the mind > will > decision > irresolution or vacillation > inconstancy > [noun] > inconstant person or thing > inconstant person starter1519 changeling1539 flirt1577 Protean1598 weathercock1598 changerc1600 mooncalf1607 minute jacka1616 a nose of wax1821 sugar stick1825 wax-nosea1843 in-and-outer1905 brainstormer1907 1607 G. Chapman Bussy D'Ambois iv. 43 Women..Are the most perfect images of the Moone (Or still-vnweand sweet Moon-calues with white faces). 1647 J. Trapp Comm. Evangelists & Acts (Acts xxii. 19) I shall be counted a Moon-calf; a Retraxit shall be entred against me. 1656 J. Trapp Comm. 1 Tim. iii. 8 Ministers must neither be Sea-calves, nor Moon-calves; double-tongued, nor unstable, or double-minded. c. A person who idles time away in dreaming; someone absent-minded, distracted, or given to sentimentality. Cf. calf n.¹ 1c. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > one who sees > [noun] > watcher of other specific things waitera1425 mooncalfa1627 sightman1794 skywatcher1889 horse-watcher1894 coast-watcher1916 spotter1944 leaf peeper1965 leaf freak1974 the mind > attention and judgement > inattention > mental wandering > abstraction, absent-mindedness > [noun] > person mooncalfa1627 a1627 T. Middleton No Wit (1657) i. 9 One weatherwise [= a name],..Observes the Full and Change; an arrant Moon-Calf. 1826 B. Disraeli Vivian Grey II. iii. vi. 64 I have been playing, I fear, the mooncalf to-night; and find, that, though I am a late watcher, I am not a solitary one. 1841 C. Dickens Barnaby Rudge vi. 267 Instead of standing gaping at her, like an old mooncalf as I am! 1904 M. Corelli God's Good Man xxvi. 498 It [sc. the note] merely ran: ‘Goodbye Moon-calf! Am going away.’ 1993 E. Galford Dyke & Dybuk (BNC) 197 Clint, it seems, has turned into a mooncalf. ‘Stop slavering,’ I snap. ‘Someone else is starring in her bedtime story.’ 1994 Denver Post 16 Jan. f3/5 Well, call me a mooncalf if you must, but I think it was a very nice law. †3. A deformed animal; a monster. Obsolete. rare. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > deformity > [noun] > abnormally-formed fetus monstera1400 scarth?a1513 mooncalfa1616 pretergeneration1640 misbirth1648 terata1902 embryopathy1917 thalidomide baby1962 thalidomide child1971 a1616 W. Shakespeare Tempest (1623) ii. ii. 135 How now Moone-Calfe . View more context for this quotation 1817 S. T. Coleridge Zapolya i. i. 55 Glycine: Madam, that wood is haunted by the war-wolves, Vampires, and monstrous—Sarolta (with a smile): Moon-calves, credulous girl! 4. An animal imagined to inhabit the moon. ΘΚΠ the world > the supernatural > supernatural being > mythical creature or object > [noun] > imaginary persons or creatures man in the moon1596 Briarean1598 phantasim1598 mooncalf1638 splacknuck1726 Idomenian1764 little green man1802 ring-tailed roarer1828 Belsnickel1830 ice worm1830 catawampus1843 whangdoodle1852 Prince Charming1855 boojum1876 snark1879 Easter rabbit1881 Easter bunny1900 death moth1910 Moomin1950 energy vampire1967 tooth fairy1977 1638 Bp. J. Wilkins Discov. World in Moone viii. 113 Thus Avicenna relates the Story of a Calfe which fell downe in a storme, the beholders thinking it a Moon-calfe, and that it fell thence. 1831 Reformers' Gaz. 31 Dec. 77 A clear streamlet purls along at his feet, and moon calves are seen browsing on the velvet turf around him. 1901 H. G. Wells First Men in Moon xi. 116 We saw..the mooncalf's shining sides... First of all impressions was its enormous size; the girth of its body was some fourscore feet, its length perhaps two hundred. 1901 H. G. Wells First Men in Moon xi. 120 We came upon another drove of mooncalves bellowing up a ravine. 1955 Times 11 Aug. 7/4 It will be nice if, when we make our landfall on the moon, we find the mooncalves prodding their craters with a noiseless drill. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2002; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < n.1565
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