moonery

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English

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Etymology

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From moon +‎ -ery.

Noun

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moonery (uncountable)

  1. (dated, rare) The conduct of one who moons.
    • a. 1834, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Marginalia:
      [] is it not melancholy to hear a man like Steffens somniloquise in such a mystifying cant of Hylozoism, of Pickism, a hodge-podge of the grossest materialism, and the most fantastic yet maudlin moonery?

References

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moonery”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

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