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Definition: MOONCALF |
MOONCALFNoun1. A dolt; a stupid fellow. 2. A monster; a false conception; a mass of fleshy matter, generated in the uterus. |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Fool | Un sot a triple etage, sot; jobbernowl, changeling, mooncalf, gobemouche. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | Don't be a mooncalf! Don't be a jabbernowl (The Bank Dick; writing credit: W.C. Fields) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
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Books | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
mooncalf | 5 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "MOONCALF"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | leshko (coot, dodo, dupe, gander, goon, goose, greener, greenhorn, gudgeon, gullibility, gullible, innocent, loon, lummox, muggins, mutt, nincompoop, ninny, nitwit, noddy, noodle, numskull, sap, sap-head, Sawney, simp, simpleton, tom-noddy), hutaq. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | урод (abnormity, monster, monstrosity), малоумен (barmy, cretinous, deficient, feebleminded, half-witted, imbecile, innocent, oafish, simple, soft-headed, soft-witted, witless), изрод (abnormity, monster), идиот (driveller, half wit, idiot, jerk). (various references) | |
German | mondkalb (hydatid mole, hydatidiform mole, vesicular mole), schwachsinnige (half wit, idiot, imbecile, mental defective, moron, moronically). (various references) | |
Greek | ηλίθιοσ (booby, clot, cretin, dopey, dull, dumb, fool, gawky, goofy, goon, idiot, idiotic, imbecile, moronic, nitwit, poky, sap-head, sheepish, sottish, stupid, thick). (various references) | |
Hungarian | tökfej (addle-pate, blockhead, chucklehead, chump, dolt, doodle, dullard, dumbo, dummy, lunk, lunkhead, meatball, mooncalves, mutt, muttonhead, mutton-head, nincompoop, ninny, nitwit, noodle, numb-skull, numskull, pinhead, pudding-head, sap, softy, veg), szörnyeteg (bete noire, harpy, monster, monstrosity, monstruosity, mooncalves), gyenge elméjû (feeble minded, half-witted, imbecile, weak-minded). (various references) | |
Italian | idiota (fook, fool, idiot, idiotic, moron, stupid, twerp). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ooncalfmay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | pateta (batty, booby, calf, chuckle-head, chump, clod-poll, coot, cracky, crazy, cuddy, daft, dolt, doodle, driveller, dumb, dupe, fanny, fat-head, fool, gander, gawk, goof, goofy, goose, idiot, jackanapes, jay, jolterhead, josser, juggins, know-nothing, loggerhead, looby, lubber-head, lummox, mutt, mutton-headed, natural, nincompoop, ninny, ninny-hammer, nitwitted, noddy, noodle, numskull, oaf, poop, prodigy, pudding-head, rattle-brained, rattle-headed, sawney, silly, simp, simpleton, slob, softhead, softy, spoony, stupid, sucker, tomfool, tom-noddy, zany), idiota (fat-head, fool, idiot, idiotic, imbecile, jay, jerk, jolterhead, moron, natural, numskull, oaf, prodigy, silly, slaphappy, softhead, stupid, sucker, tomfool), cretino (cretin, cretinous, dullard, dunce, nitwit, nitwitted). (various references) | |
Romanian | monstru (abomination, abortion, fright, heteroclite, jumbo, moloch, monster, monstrosity), slut (ill-favored, ill-favoured, misshapen, monstrous, ugly), idiot (cretinous, fool, half wit, idiot, idiotic, idiotical, idiotically, lunkhead, mutt, nincompoop, numskull, piffling, senseless, soft, stick, stupid), cretin (cretan, cretin, idiot, imbecile, Patsi). (various references) | |
Russian | идиот (clot, driveller, idiot, jerk, moron, pillock, plonker, prat, wanker). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | čudovište (afreet, monster). (various references) | |
Swedish | idiot (cuckoo, dumbbell, dumb-bell, idiot, imbecile, moron, oaf, sap, saphead, Turkey, wet). (various references) | |
Thai | คนไร้หัวคิ". (various references) | |
Turkish | doğuştan zekâ özürlü kimse. (various references) | |
Vietnamese | thằng ngu, thằng ngớ ngẩn người suốt ng y nghĩ vơ nghĩ vẩn, thằng ngốc (idiot, tomfool, tomnoddy), thằng đần (tomfool, tomnoddy). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Misspellings | |
"MOONCALF" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Moncale, monocal, Monsalve. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-f-l-m-n-o-o" | |
-2 letters: falcon, flacon. | |
-3 letters: aloof, colon, comal, focal, loofa, macon, moola. | |
-4 letters: calf, calm, calo, clam, clan, clon, coal, cola, coma, coof, cool, coon, fano, flam, flan, floc, foal, foam, fool, loaf, loam, loan, loca, loco, loof, loom, loon, mano, moan, mola, mono, mool, moon, nolo, noma. | |
-5 letters: cam, can, col, con, coo, fan, fon. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-f-l-m-n-o-o" | |
+1 letter: conformal. | |
+3 letters: conformable, conformably. | |
+5 letters: mollification, uncomfortable, uncomfortably, unconformable, unconformably. | |
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| 1. Definition 2. Usage: Modern 3. Usage: Commercial 4. Expressions: Internet | 5. Translations: Modern 6. Derivations 7. Anagrams 8. Bibliography |
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