adjective
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informal dreamy or listless
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of or like the moon
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slang crazy or foolish
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Etymology
Origin of moony
Example Sentences
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The team is filled out by Kapil Talwalkar as Abby’s moony clerk, Neil, and Lacretta as “Gurgs,” her jovial bailiff.
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 18, 2023
You should never fall in love with an investment, getting moony about how well it has done and letting the emotion of past success cloud your judgment and overcome reason.
From Seattle Times • Dec. 11, 2021
For anyone who’s followed the company from its rise to the ousting of its moony CEO Adam Neumann and the bungling of its IPO, this marks yet another crack in the company’s polished, perk-filled aesthetic.
From Slate • Jan. 29, 2020
Malinauskas opened the second box, which contained a Bell & Ross Regulateur with a big, moony face and a stainless-steel bezel.
From The New Yorker • Oct. 14, 2019
The whites of his moony eyes grew large and misty as his mouth struggled yearningly and lost against the familiar, impregnable loneliness drifting in around him again like suffocating fog.
From "Catch-22" by Joseph Heller
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