moonshiny

adj

Etymology

From moonshine + -y.

  1. inherited from mone schyne
  2. suffixed as moonshiny — “moonshine + y

Definitions

  1. Moonlit

    Moonlit; lit by moonlight.

    • “Oh, the falls!—they are a thing to be looked at on a moonshiny night, by your Aunt Sarah and that gay old bachelor, Colonel Singleton; but a fellow like myself never shows surprise, unless it may be at such a touch as this.”
  2. Crazy

    Crazy; nonsensical; ludicrous.

    • Canvassing it was like fishing for salmon: you might throw out anything in the shape of a fly, the most gaudy, the most moonshiny, the most unlife-like and unrealizable thing that could be fastened upon a hook […]

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for moonshiny. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

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