half-moon
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half-moon
noun half-moons · halfmoon · half moon
- The moon in its first or last quarter when only half the visible face is illuminated; a quarter moon. ‘Thank God we’ll have hit a bit of moon,’ Arthur Ashby remarked, glancing at the half-moon that had appeared through a break in the scudding dark clouds.
- Anything shaped like a crescent, especially the base of a fingernail.
- A semicircular or crescent-shaped Filipino butter cookie.
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Synonym of black and white (“type of cookie”).
Similar: black and white
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Talk about this word "half-moon." Wiktionary, via Micwyn, micwyn.com/word/half-moon. Accessed 6 Nov. 2026. half-moon. (n.d.). In Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Retrieved November 6, 2026, from https://micwyn.com/word/half-moon "half-moon." Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Accessed November 6, 2026. https://micwyn.com/word/half-moon.
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@misc{half_moon_2026,
title = {half-moon},
howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
year = {2026},
url = {https://micwyn.com/word/half-moon},
urldate = {2026-11-06}
}
