Citations:moonbeamish

English citations of moonbeamish

Adjective: "resembling or characteristic of a moonbeam"

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• 1965, Ballet Today, Volume 15, page 35:

  Miss Gorham wore a moonbeamish covering of white and silver with an ornate headdress of a curled black wig and crystal ornaments.

• 1987, Fantasy & Science Fiction, Volume 73, Issues 434-439, page 81:

  The Lupescus stood with their bristling dog and watched the search substantiate Val Lupescus' disappearance into pale moonbeamish air.

Adjective: "silly, foolish, dippy"

						1961 1987	2009
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• 1961, Operation Peace Corps: "a Pig in a Poke", National Defense Committee (1961), page 27:

  And how many doctors, nurses, and hospitals to care for them for the next 20 years or so, after they've served their hitch abroad but still keep coming down with odd symptoms of older diseases, most of which will be attributable to their moonbeamish venture into the interior?

• 1987, David Elliott, "Films in Focus", The Star-Gazette, 22 January 1987, page 15:

  Sissy Spacek, as the suicidally moonbeamish sister Babe, is the high point of this hectic drama about a chiming triangle of Southern belles.

• 2009, "Calendar Restaurants", San Diego Reader, Volume 38, Number 20, 21 May 2009, page 96:

  (Of course, no self-respecting New York pizzeria would ever consider serving such moonbeamish Left Coast toppings — not even if they were in New Jersey.)

Adjective: ?

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• 1994, Anil Kumar Prasad, The Village in Indo-Anglian Fiction, Novelty & Co. (1994), ISBN, page 127:

  […] he realizes that, "Ambition is like the wave of the moonbeamish sea, ever great and ever perishing. […]