Unnumbered source etymology
Original entry ↗adj
Resembling the Moon. · Moonlit. · Absent-minded; easily distracted; daydreaming. · Silly; sentimental; mooning over something.
noun
Selected source glosses provide context, not a complete modern definition inventoryThe act of mooning, flashing the buttocks. · A silly person.
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *med- Proto-Indo-European *meh₁-? Proto-Indo-European *mḗh₁n̥s Proto-Germanic *mēnô Proto-West Germanic *mānō Old English mōna Middle English mone English moon Proto-Indo-European *-kos Proto-Germanic *-gaz Proto-West Germanic *-g Old English -iġ Middle English -y English -y English moony From moon + -y.
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