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mooner


noun

  1. the earth’s natural satellite, orbiting the earth at a mean distance of 238,857 miles (384,393 km) and having a diameter of 2160 miles (3476 km).
  2. this body during a particular lunar month, or during a certain period of time, or at a certain point of time, regarded as a distinct object or entity.Compare full moon, half-moon, new moon, waning moon, waxing moon.
  3. a lunar month, or, in general, a month.
  4. any planetary satellite: the moons of Jupiter.
  5. something shaped like an orb or a crescent.
  6. moonlight.
  7. a platyfish.
  8. Slang. the buttocks, especially when bared.

verb (used without object)

  1. to act or wander abstractedly or listlessly: You’ve been mooning about all day.
  2. to sentimentalize or remember nostalgically: He spent the day mooning about his lost love.
  3. to gaze dreamily or sentimentally at something or someone: They sat there mooning into each other’s eyes.
  4. Slang. to expose one’s buttocks suddenly and publicly as a prank or gesture of disrespect.

verb (used with object)

  1. to spend (time) idly: to moon the afternoon away.
  2. to illuminate by or align against the moon.
  3. Slang. to expose one’s buttocks to as a prank or gesture of disrespect.

Idioms

  1. blue moon, a very long period of time: Such a chance comes once in a blue moon.

noun

  1. (sometimes capital) the natural satellite of the earth. Diameter: 3476 km; mass: 7.35 × 10 22 kg; mean distance from earth: 384 400 km; periods of rotation and revolution: 27.32 daysRelated adjective: lunar
  2. the face of the moon as it is seen during its revolution around the earth, esp at one of its phasesnew moon; full moon
  3. any natural satellite of a planet
  4. moonlight; moonshine
  5. something resembling a moon
  6. a month, esp a lunar one
  7. once in a blue moon very seldom
  8. over the moon informal extremely happy; ecstatic
  9. reach for the moon to desire or attempt something unattainable or difficult to obtain

verb

  1. (when tr, often foll by away; when intr, often foll by around) to be idle in a listless way, as if in love, or to idle (time) away
  2. (intr) slang to expose one’s buttocks to passers-by

noun

  1. a system of embossed alphabetical signs for blind readers, the fourteen basic characters of which can, by rotation, mimic most of the letters of the Roman alphabet, thereby making learning easier for those who learned to read before going blindCompare Braille 1

noun

  1. William. 1818–94, British inventor of the Moon writing system in 1847, who, himself blind, taught blind children in Brighton and printed mainly religious works from stereotyped plates of his own designing

n.Old English mona, from Proto-Germanic *menon- (cf. Old Saxon and Old High German mano, Old Frisian mona, Old Norse mani, Danish maane, Dutch maan, German Mond, Gothic mena “moon”), from PIE *me(n)ses- “moon, month” (cf. Sanskrit masah “moon, month;” Avestan ma, Persian mah, Armenian mis “month;” Greek mene “moon,” men “month;” Latin mensis “month;” Old Church Slavonic meseci, Lithuanian menesis “moon, month;” Old Irish mi, Welsh mis, Breton miz “month”), probably from root *me- “to measure,” in reference to the moon’s phases as the measure of time. A masculine noun in Old English. In Greek, Italic, Celtic, Armenian the cognate words now mean only “month.” Greek selene (Lesbian selanna) is from selas “light, brightness (of heavenly bodies).” Old Norse also had tungl “moon,” (“replacing mani in prose” – Buck), evidently an older Germanic word for “heavenly body,” cognate with Gothic tuggl, Old English tungol “heavenly body, constellation,” of unknown origin or connection. Hence Old Norse tunglfylling “lunation,” tunglœrr “lunatic” (adj.). Extended 1665 to satellites of other planets. To shoot the moon “leave without paying rent” is British slang from c.1823; card-playing sense perhaps influenced by gambler’s shoot the works (1922) “go for broke” in shooting dice. The moon race and the U.S. space program of the 1960s inspired a number of coinages, including, from those skeptical of the benefits to be gained, moondoggle (cf. boondoggle). The man in the moon is mentioned since early 14c.; he carries a bundle of thorn-twigs and is accompanied by a dog. Some Japanese, however, see a rice-cake-making rabbit in the moon. v.c.1600, “to expose to moonlight;” later “idle about” (1836), “move listlessly” (1848), probably on notion of being moonstruck. The meaning “to flash the buttocks” is first recorded 1968, U.S. student slang, from moon (n.) “buttocks” (1756), “probably from the idea of pale circularity” [Ayto]. See moon (n.). Related: Mooned; mooning.

  1. Often Moon. The natural satellite of Earth, visible by reflection of sunlight and traveling around Earth in a slightly elliptical orbit at an average distance of about 381,600 km (237,000 mi). The Moon’s average diameter is 3,480 km (2,160 mi), and its mass is about 180 that of Earth. Its average period of revolution around Earth is 29 days, 12 hours, 44 minutes. See more at giant impact theory.
  2. A natural satellite revolving around a planet.

A natural satellite of a planet; an object that revolves around a planet. The planets vary in the number of their moons; for example, Mercury and Venus have none, the Earth has one, and Jupiter has seventeen or more. The planets’ moons, like the planets themselves, shine by reflected light. see ask for the moon; once in a blue moon.

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