Meanings
plural mooners
- One who abstractedly wanders or gazes about.
A "mooner," fond of staring into shop windows, or watching the labourers pulling up the pavement to inspect the gas-pipes, or listening stolidly to the dull "pech" of the paviour's rammer on the flags.
1853, Charles Dickens, Household Words, volume 6, page 387 - Someone who moons (drops their pants and shows their bare buttocks in public).
Though not an exhibitionist mooner like Rousseau, Jacques offers us his belaboured rump as an image of a brutalised, not loveless but misloved, childhood .
1992, W. D. Redfern, Feet First: Jules Vallès, page 93 - A lunatic.
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mooner. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/mooner
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