moonery

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noun

The conduct of one who moons.

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Meanings

nounmoonery (uncountable)
  1. datedrareuncountableThe conduct of one who moons.

    […] is it not melancholy to hear a man like Steffens somniloquise in such a mystifying cant of Hylozoism, of Pickism, a hodge-podge of the grossest materialism, and the most fantastic yet maudlin moonery?

    a. 1834, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Marginalia

Origin

From moon + -ery.

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Rhymes & wordplay

Anagrams

Moroney
Cite this entry
APA

moonery. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/moonery

MLA

“moonery.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/moonery. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “moonery,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/moonery.

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