moon·y

[moo-nee]
adjective, moon·i·er, moon·i·est.
1.
dreamy, listless, or silly.
2.
pertaining to or characteristic of the moon.

Origin:
1580–90; moon + -y1

moon·i·ly, adverb
moon·i·ness, noun
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moony (ˈmuːnɪ) [Click for IPA pronunciation guide]
 
adj , moonier, mooniest
1.  informal dreamy or listless
2.  of or like the moon
3.  slang (Brit) crazy or foolish
 
'moonily
 
adv
 
'mooniness
 
n

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Moony is always a great word to know.
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a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
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moony
1580s, "like the moon;" 1888, "dreamy, listless," from moon (n.) + -y (2). Cf. moon (v.).
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Example sentences
It seems that this mournful-moony romantic is dotting the seven seas with his remorse.
He'd get kind of moony at dinner about all the great weird stuff he did when he was in high school.
It was a ritual transformation of private toil into public magic-or of matter into spirit, if one wanted to be moony about it.
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