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moonman en · NOUN

Etymology

From moon + man.

Meanings

1. Synonym of man in the moon (“face perceived in the moon, or the character imagined for it”).
   • Towser lifts his nose and howls / Toward the moonman, far and dim; / But the moonman only scowls, / For no dog can frighten him. 1916, John Morrison, “Towser and the Moonman”, in Youth's Companion, volume 90, page 279:
   • I sat within a cedar grove alone / And watched the moonman walk across the hill 1961, George Ross Ridge, Under the Georgia Sun: Poems, Wake-Brook House, retrieved 10 May 2023, page 20:
2. (dated) Synonym of Lunarian (“inhabitant of the Moon”).
   • In this manner did I discourse with the Moonmen while taking my repast; after which they told me, if I had no objection, that they intended taking me to Moontown, to introduce me to their king […] 1863, William George Caldcleugh, “Story of Chico Capaac, or the Man in the Moon (the Story of the Moonmen)”, in Eastern Tales, James Challen and Son, retrieved 10 May 2023, page 230:
   • On the floor the Moonman's body shivered again. 1954, Catherine Lucile Moore, Northwest of Earth, Gnome Press, retrieved 10 May 2023, page 54:
   • As the first moonmen worked to set up their rudimentary base, supply ships would have to be sent periodically with additional provisions for more permanent materials for the eventual large lunar base. Meanwhile, the moonmen would continue to live in their pressurized domes. As supplies accumulated, construction of the permanent base would begin. 1958 March 14, William Leavitt, “Man in space”, in Air Force Magazine, retrieved 10 May 2023, page 122:

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Synonyms

man in the moon · Lunarian