moonery
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?
- a. 1834, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Marginalia
References
moonery in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
Anagrams
- Moroney