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/mˈunʃˌaɪn/ Listen

noun

Moonshine n.

The light of the moon.

Hence, show without substance or reality.

A month. (R.)

A preparation of eggs for food. (Obs.)

Liquor smuggled or illicitly distilled, especially liquor distilled illegally in rural parts of the southern U. S. (Dial. Eng., & Colloq. or Slang, U. S.)

adjective

Moonshine adj.

Moonlight. (R.)

Empty; trivial; idle.

Designating, or pertaining to, illicit liquor; as, moonshine whisky. (Dial. Eng., & Colloq. or Slang, U. S.)

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Etymology of 'Moonshine'

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"Moonshine" Quotes from Famous Books

... these strange specimens I once met with in a negro called Moonshine, belonging to a person equally strange in his own way, who had, for many years, held the situation of harbour-master at Port Royal, but had then retired on a pension, and occupied a small house at Ryde, in the Isle of Wight. His name was Cockle, but he had long been addressed as Captain Cockle; ...

— Olla Podrida • Frederick Marryat

... She's a little crittur; nothin' to look to, but every bit in her is live. She looks pale, kind o' slips round still like moonshine, but where anything's to be done, there Mis' Pitkin is; and her hand allers goes to the right spot, and things is done afore ye know it. That are woman's kind o' still; she'll slip off and be gone to heaven some day afore folks know it. There comes the deacon and Jim ...

— Betty's Bright Idea; Deacon Pitkin's Farm; and The First Christmas - of New England • Harriet Beecher Stowe

... sympathy with a good deal of the stuff artists talk," he continued, following his own train of thought. "It doesn't square very well with common sense and ain't much more than pure gassing, I think. The truth is, genius is mostly moonshine. The man I call a genius is the one that makes ...

— The Philistines • Arlo Bates

... and he don't want another. Matabel, it's all moonshine about leap year. The time never comes when the woman can ax the man. It's tother way up—and Providence made it so. Bideabout has a good bit o' land, for which he is his own landlord, he has money laid by, so folks tell. You ...

— The Broom-Squire • S. (Sabine) Baring-Gould

... kept my diary faithfully, from day to day, and can set down our adventures, such as they are, pretty much as they occurred. But Drew has bewitched me. He does not realize it, but he is a weaver of spells, and I am so enmeshed in his moonshine that I doubt if I shall be able to write of our experiences as they must appear to those of our comrades in the Franco-American Corps who remember them only through the medium of the revealing ...

— High Adventure - A Narrative of Air Fighting in France • James Norman Hall

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