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Webster 1913 Edition


Moonshiny

Moon′shinˊy

,
Adj.
Moonlight.
[Colloq.]
I went to see them in a
moonshiny
night.
Addison.

Webster 1828 Edition


Moonshiny

MOON'SHINY

,
Adj.
Illuminated by the moon; as a fair moonshine night.
I went to see them in a moonshiny night.

Definition 2024


moonshiny

moonshiny

English

Adjective

moonshiny (comparative more moonshiny, superlative most moonshiny)

  1. (obsolete) moonlit; lit by moonlight
  2. (dated, colloquial) crazy; nonsensical; ludicrous
    • 1853, Broomhill: Or, The County Beauties (page 7)
      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 []