moon childn.
/ˈmuːn ˌtʃʌɪld/, U.S. /ˈmun ˌtʃaɪld/ A person affected by or born under the influence of the moon; spec. (a) (among the Kuna people of Panama) an albino; (b) Astrology a person born under the sign of Cancer (having the moon as its ruling planet); (c) colloquial a hippie.
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the mind > attention and judgement > fashionableness > [noun] > specific fashions > follower of specific fashion
moon child1923
bodgie1949
Ted1956
teddy1956
neatnik1959
mod1960
rocker1963
longhair1964
yé-yé1964
sharpie1965
hippie1966
punk1976
neo-hippie1980
New Romantic1980
the world > the universe > celestial sphere > zone of celestial sphere > particular signs > [noun] > Cancer > person born under
Cancerian1911
moon child1923
cancera1963
the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > diseases of tissue > [noun] > abnormal pigmentation > albinism > person
albino1708
kakkerlak1777
albiness1800
leucaethiop1860
moon child1923
1923 J. Toomer Cane 160 The half-moon is a white child that sleeps upon the tree-tops of the forest... Black mother sways, holding a white child on her bosom... Teat moon-children at your breasts.
1953 C. E. Keeler in Jrnl. Heredity 44 163/1 During the summers of 1950–51–52 I studied the albinistic Moon-children among the primitive Caribe-Cuna Indians of San Blas Province, Lower Panama... These Cuna Indians..possess the highest incidence of albinism in the world.
1971 New Yorker 3 Apr. 40/3 She was a Cancerian, a Moon child with no light of her own but the reflected light of the Sun.
1985 T. Ferguson Onyx John ix. 254 ‘Let the Sun Shine In’ proved entirely inappropriate as a sixties anthem when really we were moon children.
1989 St. Petersburg (Florida) Times 12 Jan. (Food section) 2 d/4 My friend the ‘moon child’, as many born under this unfortunately named sign prefer to be known, is allergic to shellfish, but, amiable moon child, he'll eat crab.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, December 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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