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▪ I. moony, a.|ˈmuːnɪ|
[f. moon n.1 and v. + -y.]
1. Of or belonging to the moon; resembling or characteristic of the moon; like that of the moon.
a1586Sidney Arcadia iii. (1622) 257 What mou'd me to inuite Your presence (sister deare) first to my Moony sphere. 1789Blake Songs Innoc., Cradle Song 4 Sweet dreams of pleasant streams By happy, silent, moony beams! 1875G. Macdonald Malcolm III. x. 148 The cave shone silvery gray, with a faint moony sparkle.
2. Moon-shaped.
†a. Crescent-shaped, lunate; hence, having the crescent as an emblem or ensign, belonging to the Turkish or Muslim power.
1591Sylvester Du Bartas i. ii. 467 The Moony Standards of proud Ottoman. 1697Dryden æneid xi. 963 They clash with manly force their Moony Shields. 1716Fenton Poems 227 The miscreant Moony Host, Before the Victor-Cross shall fly. 1814Southey Roderick xiii, One..aim'd against his neck The moony falchion's point.
b. Round, circular.
1836Blackw. Mag. XXXIX. 670 He was large and stout with a very red face, full and moony. 1865Dickens Mut. Fr. i. x, An oilcake-fed style of business-gentleman with mooney spectacles.
3. Illuminated by the moon; also, resembling moonlight.
1648Herrick Hesper., Oberon's Pal., Mildly disparkling,..like those mites Of Candi'd dew in Moony nights. 1830W. Taylor Hist. Surv. Germ. Poetry I. 292 The scenery of Klopstock is always illuminated by a moony twilight, a misty glory. 1883G. Macdonald D. Grant II. xvii. 187 On the moony side [of the street] people..could recognize each other two houses away.
4. Inclined to moon or act in a listless, aimless manner; given to mooning; stupidly dreamy.
1848Thackeray Bk. Snobs xliii, Casting upon the reflection of his white neckcloth a pleased moony smile. 1865Dickens Mut. Fr. iii. ii, What a mooney godmother you are, after all. 1879McCarthy Own Times II. xxiii. 170 It was agreed..that he [sc. Louis Napoleon] was a fatuous, dreamy, moony, impracticable, stupid young man.
b. Slightly intoxicated. slang.
1854N. I. Lucas Eng.-Germ. Dict. 1125. 1867 Smyth Sailor's Word-bk., Mooney, not quite intoxicated, but unfitted for duty. 1872Latham, Moony..3 Tipsy. Colloquial.
▪ II. moony
obs. form of many.
c1460Oseney Reg. 139 John Duke..and moony other þenne þere Beyng present. |