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Moony adj.

Of or pertaining to the moon. "Soft and pale as the moony beam."

Furnished with a moon; bearing a crescent. "But soon the miscreant moony host Before the victor cross shall fly."

Silly; weakly sentimental. (Colloq.)

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Moony" Quotes from Famous Books

... feel easier, I started looking about me. It was an extraordinary sight. Even the light was extraordinary, a kind of reddy-coloured twilight, on account of the streamers of seaweed that floated up on either side of the ship. And far overhead just a moony, deep green-blue. The deck of the ship, except for a slight list to starboard, was level, and lay all dark and long between the weeds, clear except where the masts had snapped when she rolled, and vanishing into black night ...

— Twelve Stories and a Dream • H. G. Wells

... me you're getting mixed up," said George cheerfully. "I don't see much resemblance between time and the sky, or between things and smoke-wreaths; but I do see one reason you like 'Lucy Morgan so much. She talks that same kind of wistful, moony way sometimes—I don't mean to say I mind it in either of you, because I rather like to listen to it, and you've got a very good voice, mother. It's nice to listen to, no matter how much smoke and sky, and so on, you talk. So's Lucy's for that matter; and I see why you're congenial. She talks that ...

— The Magnificent Ambersons • Booth Tarkington

... flood, for Zeal provide A new supply; and swell thy moony tide, That on thy buxom back the floating ...

— The Works Of John Dryden, Vol. 7 (of 18) - The Duke of Guise; Albion and Albanius; Don Sebastian • John Dryden

... to be any chance for a debate on the subject; so I goes up to my room. But it's a peach of a night, warm and moony; so after I turns out the light I camps down on the windowseat and gazes out over the shrubby towards the water. I could see the top of the Hibbs house and a little wharf down on ...

— On With Torchy • Sewell Ford

Words linked to "Moony" : dreamy, moonlit, moonless