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   moon

   /muːn/

   noun

   • 1. the natural satellite of the earth, visible (chiefly at night) by reflected light from the sun: "there was no moon, but a sky sparkling with brilliant stars"
   • ▪ a natural satellite of any planet: "Titan, Saturn's largest moon"
   • ▪ a month: "that wonderful night four moons ago"
   • ▪ anything that one could desire: "you must know he'd give you the moon"

   verb

   • 1. behave or move in a listless and aimless manner: "I don't want her mooning about in the morning" Similar waste timefiddleloafidlemopedriftstooge aroundinformal:moochlollygagbat
   • ▪ act in a dreamily infatuated manner: "Timothy's mooning over her like a schoolboy" Similar mopepinelanguishbrooddaydreamfantasizebe in a reveriebe in a brown study
   • 2. expose one's buttocks to someone in order to insult or amuse them: informal "the crew dropped their trousers and mooned at them"

   Word Origin Old Englishmōna, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch maan and German Mond, also to month, from an Indo-European root shared by Latin mensis and Greek mēn ‘month’, and also Latin metiri ‘to measure’ (the moon being used to measure time).

   Derivatives

   • 1. moonless adjective
   • 2. moonlike adjective

   Scrabble Points: 6

   • M

     3

   • O

     1

   • O

     1

   • N

     1

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