mooney

Adjective

moony (comparative moonier, superlative mooniest)

1. Resembling the Moon.
   • Her white throat whiter than a moony pearl / Just threaded with a blue vein’s tapestry / Had not yet ceased to throb, and still her breast / Swayed like a wind-stirred lily in ambiguous unrest.1881, Oscar Wilde, “Charmides”, in Poems, London: David Bogue, […], →OCLC, page 136

   Synonyms:

   moonlike, moonish

2. Moonlit.
   • And oft at midnight’s moony scene
     A faded form of ghastly mien
     Across the waves doth glide;
     And oft upon the passing gales
     A plaintive voice the ear assails,
     When wand’ring by the tide.1816, Dorothea Primrose Campbell, “Agnes And the Water-Sprite”, in Poems, London: Baldwin, Cradock, and Joy, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 26
3. (figuratively) Absent-minded; easily distracted; daydreaming.
   • “Well, ain’t it strange? Why, Aunt Polly, he was always so good and kind and moony and absent-minded and chuckle-headed and lovable—why, he was just an angel! What CAN be the matter of him, do you reckon?”1896, Mark Twain [pseudonym; Samuel Langhorne Clemens], chapter 1, in Tom Sawyer, Detective
4. (figuratively) Silly; sentimental; mooning over something.
   • In one of his earliest known paintings, A Carnival Evening, which was shown at the Salon des Independants in 1886, the clown may reflect the influence of Watteau, the clown's girlfriend perhaps was taken from an advertisement for chocolates, the lacy tangle of branches in the trees possibly echoes...1985 February, Robert Wernick, “Rousseau: the customs clerk who created a world of wonder”, in Smithsonian, volume 15, Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution, →ISSN, page 80
5. Sickly or tipsy.

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