mooner

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noun

One who abstractedly wanders or gazes about.

Scrabble 8

Meanings

nounmooner (plural mooners)

plural mooners

  1. 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
  2. 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

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