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moonshiney

moonshiney is the alternative form of moonshiny.

Meaning of moonshiny

Adjective

moonshiny (comparative more moonshiny, superlative most moonshiny)

  1. (obsolete) Moonlit; lit by moonlight.
    • When Trim, as his custom was, after he had put my uncle Toby to bed, going down one moon-shiny night to see that every thing was right at his fortifications—in the lane separated from the bowling-green with flowering shrubs and holly—he espied his Bridget.1759, Laurence Sterne, chapter 17, in The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman, volume II
    Synonyms:
    moonlight
  2. (colloquial, dated) 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 […]1853, Broomhill: Or, The County Beauties, page 7

Forms of moonshiney

comparativemore moonshiney
superlativemost moonshiney

Questions about moonshiney

What is moonshiney the alternative form of?
Moonshiney is the alternative form of moonshiny.

Words near moonshiney in the dictionary

  1. moonshiner
  2. moonshiner's turn
  3. moonshiners
  4. moonshiners' turns
  5. moonshines
  6. moonshiney
  7. moonshining
  8. moonshiny
  9. moonship
  10. moonships
  11. moonshis

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