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单词 moonshiny
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moonshinyadj.

Brit. /ˈmuːnʃʌɪni/, U.S. /ˈmunˌʃaɪni/
Forms: 1600s moone-shinie, 1600s– moonshiny.
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: moonshine n., -y suffix1.
Etymology: < moonshine n. + -y suffix1. Compare shiny adj., and later sunshiny adj. Compare slightly earlier moonlight adj.
1.
a. Illuminated by moonlight; moonlit. Now rare.
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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.
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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.
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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).
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