Mooning
['muːnɪŋ]
Definition
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Moon
Editor: Pedro
Examples
- Pleasure in our cities has become tied to lobster palaces, adventure to exalted murderers, romance to silly, mooning novels. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- To think that a man should be so silly as to go mooning about like that for a girl's glove! Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- He was mooning about, I suppose, taking liberties with people's chins; but there he was, somehow. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- To see him mooning along to that time of life, laying down nothing by the way and picking up nothing by the way, is delightful. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
Editor: Pedro