单词 | moonshiny |
释义 | moonshinyadj. 1. a. Illuminated by moonlight; moonlit. Now rare. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > light > naturally occurring light > [adjective] > resembling moonlight > moonlit moonlight1584 moonshine1587 moonshiny1602 moonshining1638 moony1648 moonlit1783 moon-bright1790 moonlighted1811 mooned1831 moon-litten1845 1602 R. Carew Surv. Cornwall ii. f. 136v In a faire Moone-shinie night,..hee hyeth to dig it vp. 1650 Man in Moon 20–7 Feb. 352 The Man in the Moon must walke late... They may see him each Moonshiny night, but cannot come at him. 1717 A. Pope Let. in Corr. (1956) 439 I lye dreaming of you in Moonshiny Nights. 1768 J. Cremer Jrnl. 27 Jan. in R. R. Bellamy Ramblin' Jack (1936) 64 Being late of Evening before his return of a Moon-shiny Night. 1886 P. Robinson Valley Teetotum Trees 140 Every one who likes to do so may still believe that on moon~shiny nights the elves and fays come out into the meadows. b. Pale as moonlight; silvered with moonlight; whitely shining. Now rare. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > light > naturally occurring light > [adjective] > resembling moonlight moony1830 moonshiny1834 1834 S. T. Coleridge Alice du Clos in Poet. Wks. II. 57 As spotless fair, as airy light As that moon-shiny doe. 1837 T. Carlyle French Revol. I. iv. iv. 202 Thy serenely beautiful Philosophising, with its soft moonshiny clearness. 1903 C. T. Druery Bk. Brit. Ferns 70 The soft moonshiny green of the Oak Fern. 2. Of the nature of moonshine; fanciful, unreal, insubstantial. Cf. moonshine n. 2a. ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > existence > substantiality or concreteness > unsubstantiality or abstractness > [adjective] > unsubstantial or merely apparent shadowy1374 phantom?c1450 shadowish1561 dreamish1563 fleshlessa1592 dreamya1594 shadowed1597 unreal1605 phantasmatic1607 dreamlike1615 umbratilous1637 phantasmatical1642 umbratile1647 moonshine1668 phantomical1687 visionary1697 faerie1767 filmlike1804 phantasmal1805 spectral1816 moonshiny1821 phantomatica1834 parheliacal1852 phantomic1878 translunar1927 celluloid1928 the mind > mental capacity > intelligibility > absence of meaning > nonsense, rubbish > [adjective] tooma1250 beggarly1526 trumpery1576 balductum1577 skimble-skamble1598 nonsense1621 warbling1621 flim-flam1631 nonsensical1645 unsensical1692 fiddlecome1697 waffling1698 mataeological1716 flummery1749 water-gruelish1788 slip-sloppish1797 twaddling1804 twaddle1830 twaddly1841 fee-faw-fumish1846 poppycock1852 boshy1860 twaddlesome1865 moonshiny1880 cockalorum1881 tommyrotic1894 crappy1928 ballsy1942 farkakte1960 1821 T. H. Marshall Irish Necromancer I. vi. 131 A swindler, with his eastles in the air and his moonshiny titles. 1857 H. Melville Confidence-man xli. 312 And moon~shiny as it in theory may be, yet a very practical philosophy. 1880 Sat. Rev. No. 1291. 122 There is a good deal of moon~shiny sentiment in it, especially in the conversation of the lovers. 1892 ‘M. Twain’ Amer. Claimant 36 The same old scheming, generous, goodhearted, moonshiny, hopeful, no-account failure he always was. 1952 R. Hart-Davis Hugh Walpole xxii. 369 A furnished house..decorated with Lawrence's much-discussed paintings of moonshiny nudes. 1990 Amer. Lit. 62 208 This complaint culminates a lifetime of deprecating descriptions of the frail, moonshiny, imaginary territory of his fictions. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.1602 |
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