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mooner

mooner noun: one who abstractedly wanders or gazes about.

Noun

mooner (plural mooners)

  1. One who abstractedly wanders or gazes about.
    • A "mooner," fond of staring into shop windows, or watching the labourers pulling up the pavement to inspect the gas-pipes, or listening stolidly to the dull "pech" of the paviour's rammer on the flags.1853, Charles Dickens, Household Words, volume 6, page 387
  2. Someone who moons (drops their pants and shows their bare buttocks in public).
    • Though not an exhibitionist mooner like Rousseau, Jacques offers us his belaboured rump as an image of a brutalised, not loveless but misloved, childhood .1992, W. D. Redfern, Feet First: Jules Vallès, page 93
  3. A lunatic.

Forms of mooner

pluralmooners

Origin of mooner

From moon + -er.

Questions about mooner

What does mooner mean?
Mooner means one who abstractedly wanders or gazes about.
What part of speech is mooner?
Mooner is a noun.
What is the plural of mooner?
The plural of mooner is mooners.

Words near mooner in the dictionary

  1. mooned
  2. Moonee
  3. Moonee Beach
  4. Moonee Ponds
  5. Moonee Valley
  6. mooner
  7. mooners
  8. moonery
  9. moonet
  10. moonets
  11. moonette

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