moonbat
/ˈmuːnˌbæt/
moonbat noun: a liberal (someone with a left-wing ideology).
Noun
moonbat (plural moonbats)
- A liberal (someone with a left-wing ideology).
- So, what do moonbat professors do when they're not attacking military recruiters, the Bush administration, cameramen, and College Republicans?2005, Michele Malkin, Unhinged: Exposing Liberals Gone Wild, Washington, DC: Regnery, →ISBN, page 108
- As nervous Bush supporters watched the president's approval rating slide, they unleashed their wrath on Sheehan, labeling the mourning mom a “crazy,” “anti-Semite,” “left-wing moonbat,” “crackpot” whose behavior bordered on “treasonous” and who was nothing more than a “hysterical noncombatant.”2006 May 11, Eric Boehlert, Lapdogs: How the Press Lay Down for the Bush White House, New York: Free Press, →ISBN, page 216
Adjective
moonbat (comparative more moonbat, superlative most moonbat)
- (of ideas) Absurd or obviously untruthful.
- 20204: The Bulwark
Trump, who said last month at the Republican National Convention that he would never again retell the story of the attempt on his life “because it’s too painful to tell,” told that story with relish. He expounded at length on his usual moonbat fables about how countries around...
- 20204: The Bulwark
Synonyms of moonbat
Forms of moonbat
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | moonbats |
| Adjective | |
| comparative | more moonbat |
| superlative | most moonbat |
Origin of moonbat
From moon + bat. Originally the name of the XP-67 experimental aircraft, developed by McDonnell Aircraft in 1941. Used in the 1940s by the science-fiction writer Robert Heinlein, then used in the term “barking moonbat” coined in 1999 by Perry de Havilland of “The Libertarian Samizdata”, a right-libertarian weblog. This originally referred to both left-wing and right-wing crazy people. Sometimes wrongly claimed to be a corruption of Monbiot (from George Monbiot, British environmentalist and Guardian columnist).
Words formed from moonbat
Questions about moonbat
- What does moonbat mean?
- Moonbat means a liberal (someone with a left-wing ideology).
- What part of speech is moonbat?
- Moonbat can be a noun or an adjective.
- How do you pronounce moonbat?
- Moonbat is pronounced /ˈmuːnˌbæt/.
- What is the plural of moonbat?
- The plural of moonbat is moonbats.
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