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English
Etymology
moon + -ery
Noun
moonery (uncountable)
- (dated, rare) The conduct of one who moons.
a. 1834, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Marginalia:[…] is it not melancholy to hear a man like Steffens somniloquise in such a mystifying cant of Hylozoism, of Pickism, a hodge-podge of the grossest materialism, and the most fantastic yet maudlin moonery?
References
“moonery”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
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