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Moony adj.

Of or pertaining to the moon. "Soft and pale as the moony beam."

Furnished with a moon; bearing a crescent. "But soon the miscreant moony host Before the victor cross shall fly."

Silly; weakly sentimental. (Colloq.)

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Etymology of 'Moony'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Moony" Quotes from Famous Books

... meet, so springs with gladder smiles Meet after long divorcement by the isles; When love, the child of likeness, urgeth on Their crystal natures to a union: So meet stolen kisses, when the moony nights Call forth fierce lovers to their wish'd delights; So kings and queens meet, when desire convinces All thoughts but such as aim at getting princes, As I meet thee. Soul of my life and fame! Eternal lamp of love! whose radiant flame Out-glares the heaven's Osiris,[H] and thy gleams ...

— The Hesperides & Noble Numbers: Vol. 1 and 2 • Robert Herrick

... refreshing to lose the moony Tennysonian sensuousness which induced, with Lowell's vigorous imagination, the blank artificiality of style which was visible in several of his early poems. There was a tendency, too, to the Byzantine liberty of gilding the bronze of our common words, a palpable longing after the ississimus of ...

— Continental Monthly, Vol. I. February, 1862, No. II. - Devoted To Literature And National Policy • Various

... music, how sweet is thy moony light to eyes wearied of the harsh brilliance of this world's sun! The soul that has lived and turned away from the common horse-pond, where, as they drink, men stir up the mud with their feet, nestles ...

— Jean-Christophe Journey's End • Romain Rolland

Words linked to "Moony" : woolgathering, moon, moonless