moonshiny

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moonshiny

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From moonshine + -y.

adjective more moonshiny · most moonshiny

obsolete Moonlit; lit by moonlight. When Trim, as his custom was, after he had put my uncle Toby to bed, going down one moon-shiny night to see that every thing was right at his fortifications—in the lane separated from the bowling-green with flowering shrubs and holly—he espied his Bridget.
Similar: moonlight
colloquial, dated Crazy; nonsensical; ludicrous. Canvassing it was like fishing for salmon: you might throw out anything in the shape of a fly, the most gaudy, the most moonshiny, the most unlife-like and unrealizable thing that could be fastened upon a hook […]

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@misc{moonshiny_2026,
  title = {moonshiny},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/moonshiny},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}