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They are mooning about, in smocks or muumuus, but the majority wear only Birkenstocks.

From The Guardian • Nov. 25, 2019

And a couple of flunkies in long-tailed coats and knee breeches and white wigs are mooning round, fixing things up ship shape.

From Sundry Accounts by Cobb, Irvin S. (Irvin Shrewsbury)

If you are mooning about that worthless boy of yours, you had better get over it.

From McClure's Magazine, Vol. XXXI, No. 3, July 1908. by Various

But the young Town Children, O my brothers, They are mooning all the day; They are idling in the play-time of the others, For they have no place to play!

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 98, March 15, 1890 by Various