Moonling

I have a husband, and a two-legg'd one, But such a moonling, as no wit of man, Or roses can redeem from being an ass.

Of the members composing this household, there are but two of whom it will be necessary to speak in this connection; and these are the moonling, or simpleton, and the sister of the wife.

But allow me to say that you were standing like a moonling on that road.

"Jack is n-not a moonling," Catherine said. "His m-mother became ill before his birth. He c-cannot be blamed for any mental deficiency."

The sky was not quite as blue as her—Thunderation, he was no moonling!

Remaining there long enough to hear Those words that moonling longs to hear...I love you

Here he was, reputed to be a rake among rakes, but he discovered, where Thea was concerned, he was as vulnerable and uncertain as the greenest moonling in love for the first time.

"I see. He's a black man. But Jacob Millhaven is not black. Eldridge was left on his doorstep as a baby, and the philosopher adopted him." "Oh! Then he's a moonling! He doesn't seem to suffer from any stigma."

A shy moonling hangs on the suit of an astronaut and is taken back to earth.

For a given walking speed, will an earthling astronaut or a moonling do less, equal, or more work when taking a stroll on the Moon, and by what factor?

This, together with the 'balloon manufactured entirely of dirty newspaper' in which the dwarf/moonling descends at the tale's opening, points to some self-referential satire on behalf of Poe, a newspaperman himself.