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▪ I. ˈmooning, vbl. n.
[f. moon v. + -ing1.]
1. The action of the verb moon; listless or aimless wandering about or contemplation.
1857Kingsley Two Y. Ago i, John Briggs..neglected alike work and amusement for lazy mooning over books. 1882L. Stephen Swift ix. 195 The knight used, it seems, to lose himself in metaphysical moonings.
attrib.1859Meredith R. Feverel xii, Lady Blandish likewise hinted at his mooning propensities. 1862Sala Acc. Addresses 214 It may have been on a mooning excursion..when I had..nothing to do.
2. Hunting by moonlight. (See moon v. 3.)
3. The action of exposing one's buttocks (moon v. 1 c).
1974Guardian 22 Mar. 17/8 Streaking..seems to be the mainly male equivalent of the mainly female practice that cropped up in campuses across the United States in the late fifties and early sixties. This was known as ‘mooning’... Mooning consisted..of exposing the bottom in the general direction of whoever the mooner wanted to impress, protest to, or affront.
▪ II. ˈmooning, ppl. a.
[-ing2.]
Listless, aimless. Hence ˈmooningly adv.
1893M. Pemberton Iron Pirate 177 Chinese mooningly silent. 1905Athenæum 19 Aug. 232/2 The Celt of ‘the Forty-five’ was not a mooning misanthrope. |