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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.)

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Etymology of 'Moony'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Moony" Quotes from Famous Books

... angrier path?) What tho' in worlds which own a single sun The sands of time grow dimmer as they run, Yet thine is my resplendency, so given To bear my secrets thro' the upper Heaven. Leave tenantless thy crystal home, and fly, With all thy train, athwart the moony sky— Apart—like fire-flies in Sicilian night [14], And wing to other worlds another light! Divulge the secrets of thy embassy To the proud orbs that twinkle—and so be To ev'ry heart a barrier and a ban Lest the stars totter in the ...

— Edgar Allan Poe's Complete Poetical Works • Edgar Allan Poe

... was to her to what I am now. She does not seem to forget or ignore the past. She is not conventional, and never was; hence, friendship may not mean what it does to so many of her sex and age—a little moony sentiment blended with calculation as to a fellow's usefulness. If we could enjoy something of the good-comradeship that obtains between man and man, she is the one woman of the world with whom I should covet the relation. Stella, in herself, is all that I could ask for a wife, but I don't ...

— A Young Girl's Wooing • E. P. Roe

Words linked to "Moony" : inattentive, moonlit, moon