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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

moonery en · NOUN

Etymology

From moon + -ery.

Meanings

  1. (dated, rare, uncountable) The 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: