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moonlighter

noun

Etymology

From moonlight + -er.

  1. inherited from *lewk-✻ — “bright; to see; to shine”
  2. inherited from lēoht — “light”
  3. inherited from *mḗh₁n̥s✻ — “moon; month”
  4. inherited from mōna — “moon”
  5. inherited from moonelight,monelight,mone lyght — “light of the moon; (heraldry) pattern of moons on the field of a heraldic banner”
  6. suffixed as moonlighter — “moonlight + er”

Definitions

  1. A person who moonlights, working a second job on the side.

  2. One who serenades by moonlight.

  3. A moonshiner, who makes illicit alcohol.

  4. ›+ 2 more definitions

    1. One of a gang who used violence, especially at night, to promote agrarianism in Ireland…

      One of a gang who used violence, especially at night, to promote agrarianism in Ireland during the Land War of the late 19th century.

    2. A southern Australian marine fish, Tilodon sexfasciatum.

The neighborhood

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA