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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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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Moony" Quotes from Famous Books

... her! You do! You do! Say what you will, you are ever listening for the flutter of her petticoats on the stairs, ever at her French heels, ever at moony gaze with her—and a scant inch betwixt your noses! So that you come not again to me vowing what you have vowed to me—I care not ...

— The Hidden Children • Robert W. Chambers

... under the stars. Crickets played all the tunes they knew. It was so comfortable with light . . . Stars, a rainbow, the moon! The fairies had shiny crowns On their bright hair. The bottoms of their little gowns were roses! It was musical in the moony light, And the fairy queen, Oh, it was all golden where she came With tiny pages on her trail. She walked slowly to her high throne, Slowly, slowly to music, And watched the dancing that went on All night long in star-glitter On ...

— Poems By a Little Girl • Hilda Conkling

... imitations but the very same blossoms, which had grown old. And as each new character is merely a metamorphosis from something older, in these little grey balls I recognised green buds plucked before their time; but beyond all else the rosy, moony, tender glow which lit up the blossoms among the frail forest of stems from which they hung like little golden roses—marking, as the radiance upon an old wall still marks the place of a vanished fresco, the difference between those ...

— Swann's Way - (vol. 1 of Remembrance of Things Past) • Marcel Proust

... 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 ...

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

... like a heap of snow, Lying where grasses grow, See glimmering, while the moony lustres creep, Mild mannered Athens, dight In dewy marbles white, Among her goddesses and gods asleep; And swaying on a purple sea, The many moored galleys ...

— Poems by Jean Ingelow, In Two Volumes, Volume I. • Jean Ingelow

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