Etymology

moonraker

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Today it means: Someone from Wiltshire. Full definition →

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The story

From moon + raker. (someone from Wiltshire): After a story in which some Wiltshire peasants, seeing the reflection of the moon in a shallow pool, tried to rake it out.

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