moonbat

English

Etymology

From moon +‎ bat, first used in the 1940s by the science-fiction writer Robert Heinlein[1], then used in the term “barking moonbat” coined in 1999 by Perry de Havilland of “The Libertarian Samizdata”, a right-libertarian weblog. This originally referred to both left-wing and right-wing crazy people.[2] Sometimes wrongly claimed to be a corruption of Monbiot (from George Monbiot, British environmentalist and Guardian columnist).[3]

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈmuːnˌbæt/

Noun

moonbat (plural moonbats)

(informal, derogatory) A liberal (someone with a left-wing ideology).
Synonyms: (derogatory) leftard, (derogatory) libtard
Coordinate term: wing nut
- 2005, Malkin, Michele, Unhinged: Exposing Liberals Gone Wild, Washington, DC: Regnery, →ISBN, page 108:
  So, what do moonbat professors do when they're not attacking military recruiters, the Bush administration, cameramen, and College Republicans?
- 2006 May 11, Boehlert, Eric, Lapdogs: How the Press Lay Down for the Bush White House, New York: Free Press, →ISBN, page 216:
  As nervous Bush supporters watched the president's approval rating slide, they unleashed their wrath on Sheehan, labeling the mourning mom a “crazy,” “anti-Semite,” “left-wing moonbat,” “crackpot” whose behavior bordered on “treasonous” and who was nothing more than a “hysterical noncombatant.”
- 2009 October 13, Eubanks, Steve, Downforce, New York: Harper, →ISBN, page 255:
  Your job is to separate the media from the moonbats before some industrious cub reporter starts looking into our land deal.
- For more quotations using this term, see Citations:moonbat.

Derived terms

moonbattery
moonbatty

References

Robert A. Heinlein (1947-04-26), “Space Jockey”, in The Saturday Evening Post
Wingnut in the Word Detective
"barking moonbat" in the Samizdata glossary

单词	moonbat
释义	moonbat English Etymology From moon +‎ bat, first used in the 1940s by the science-fiction writer Robert Heinlein[1], then used in the term “barking moonbat” coined in 1999 by Perry de Havilland of “The Libertarian Samizdata”, a right-libertarian weblog. This originally referred to both left-wing and right-wing crazy people.[2] Sometimes wrongly claimed to be a corruption of Monbiot (from George Monbiot, British environmentalist and Guardian columnist).[3] Pronunciation IPA^(key): /ˈmuːnˌbæt/ Noun moonbat (plural moonbats) (informal, derogatory) A liberal (someone with a left-wing ideology). Synonyms: (derogatory) leftard, (derogatory) libtard Coordinate term: wing nut 2005, Malkin, Michele, Unhinged: Exposing Liberals Gone Wild, Washington, DC: Regnery, →ISBN, page 108: So, what do moonbat professors do when they're not attacking military recruiters, the Bush administration, cameramen, and College Republicans? 2006 May 11, Boehlert, Eric, Lapdogs: How the Press Lay Down for the Bush White House, New York: Free Press, →ISBN, page 216: As nervous Bush supporters watched the president's approval rating slide, they unleashed their wrath on Sheehan, labeling the mourning mom a “crazy,” “anti-Semite,” “left-wing moonbat,” “crackpot” whose behavior bordered on “treasonous” and who was nothing more than a “hysterical noncombatant.” 2009 October 13, Eubanks, Steve, Downforce, New York: Harper, →ISBN, page 255: Your job is to separate the media from the moonbats before some industrious cub reporter starts looking into our land deal. For more quotations using this term, see Citations:moonbat. Derived terms moonbattery moonbatty References Robert A. Heinlein (1947-04-26), “Space Jockey”, in The Saturday Evening Post Wingnut in the Word Detective "barking moonbat" in the Samizdata glossary Further reading The Samizdata glossary
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