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mooned

[ moond ]

adjective

  1. ornamented with moons or crescents.
  2. orb- or crescent-shaped.


mooned

/ muːnd /

adjective

  1. decorated with a moon
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Word History and Origins

Origin of mooned1

First recorded in 1540–50; moon + -ed 3
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Example Sentences

When she had gone, Bibbs mooned pessimistically from shelf to shelf, his eye wandering among the titles of the books.

He dawdled and mooned over that stocking and made and unmade plans.

Crofter and Wales mooned about under the trees in the field somewhat limply, but showed no outward signs of distress.

He had mooned about among books to some trifling extent, but the taste for study had never taken him.

He mooned along in this fashion, a fashion in which his bushmen friends would not have known him, until his host entered.

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