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adjective

Moony adj.

Of or pertaining to the moon. "Soft and pale as the moony beam."

Furnished with a moon; bearing a crescent. "But soon the miscreant moony host Before the victor cross shall fly."

Silly; weakly sentimental. (Colloq.)

proper noun

Moony n. (Also spelled Moonie) A follower of the Rev. Sun Myun Moon; a member of the Unification Church; often considered disparaging.

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Etymology of 'Moony'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Moony" Quotes from Famous Books

... artistic-looking guy alongside him. That's his partner. Ineffectual, moony sort of a mut. He's a wood-carver; they call him Globstock; told me his knowledge of wood-carving would come in handy when we came to make boats at Lake Bennett. Then there's a third. See that little fellow shooting ...

— The Trail of '98 - A Northland Romance • Robert W. Service

... it looks like he is. That's when he takes it into his head to pick out some girl and settle down and have a home and chuldern of his own. THEN, I guess, he'll go out after the money! You'll see. I've known dozens o' cases, and so've you—moony, no-'count young men, all notions and talk, goin' to be ministers, maybe or something; and there's just this one thing takes it out of 'em and brings 'em right down to business. Well, I never could make out just what it is Bibbs wants to be, really; ...

— The Turmoil - A Novel • Booth Tarkington

... Zeal provide A new supply; and swell thy moony tide, That on thy buxom back the floating ...

— The Works Of John Dryden, Vol. 7 (of 18) - The Duke of Guise; Albion and Albanius; Don Sebastian • John Dryden

... Well, sah, de niggers fer miles 'round wuz jest bustin' dey jaws tryin' to say dem gran' names, but a coolness set in on mah mammy. She got mighty uppish, an' say it warn't fayh fer Zack's mammy to wait an' go her one better, dat a-way. So dey sent fer ole Aunt Moony Jorden. Ever'body stepped 'round fer Aunt Moony, 'caze she's bohn wid a cawl on her face an' could see speer'ts; so she got out a dried buzzard's foot an' whispers to it, an' den says ever'body mought as well make ...

— Sunlight Patch • Credo Fitch Harris

... lay there unopened; I knew I ought to look at the news, but I was too busy just then trying to find an adjective for the Moon—the magical, unheard of, moony epithet, which, could I only find or invent it, what then would matter the sublunary quakes and conflicts of ...

— More Trivia • Logan Pearsall Smith

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