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Mooseling vs Calf - What's the difference?

mooseling | calf |

As nouns the difference between mooseling and calf

is that mooseling is (label) a small, young, or baby moose while calf is a young cow or bull or calf can be (anatomy) the back of the leg below the knee.

mooseling

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • (label) A small, young, or baby moose.
  • * 1915 , Ruth Kedzie Wood, The Tourist's Maritime Provinces , Dodd, Mead, p. 42 (Google snippet view):
    • Gently, with a hand on its furry neck, the three- or four-day-old mooseling was towed back to the shore where the distraught mother was thrashing and stomping among the trees.
  • * 1995 , , The Environmental Imagination , ISBN 9780674258624, p. 198 (Google preview):
    • [M]oose and man are alike as caring parents, and the beast's tragedy, which the man has caused, smites the man's conscience and strengthens his resolve to be a good parent to mooseling as well as child.
  • * 2010 , Russell B. Hanson, "Rambling at the Edge" in St Croix River Road Ramblings , p. 50 (Google preview):
    • [O]ur only visitor on the whole trip was a big moose and her mooseling , more interested in nibbling the brush than bothering us.

    Synonyms

    * calf

    calf

    English

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) cealf, from (etyl) .

    Noun

    (en-noun)
  • A young cow or bull.
  • Leather made of the skin of the calf; especially, a fine, light-coloured leather used in bookbinding.
  • A young elephant, seal or whale (also used of some other animals).
  • A chunk of ice broken off of a larger glacier, ice shelf, or iceberg.
    • (Kane)
  • A small island, near a larger island.
    • the Calf of Man
  • A cabless railroad engine.
  • (informal, dated) An awkward or silly boy or young man; any silly person; a dolt.
  • * Drayton
    • some silly, doting, brainless calf
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    * cow * veal

    Etymology 2

    (etyl) kalfi, possibly derived from the same Germanic root as ().

    Noun

    (en-noun)
  • (anatomy) The back of the leg below the knee.
  • The muscle in the back of the leg below the knee.
  • * 1988 , Steve Holman, "Christian Conquers Columbus", , 47 (6): 28-34.
    • Sure, his calves are a little weak, but the rest of his physique is so overwhelming, he should place high.
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