Definitions for mooned

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mooned mooned

Spelling: [moond]

IPA: /mund/

Mooned is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 87 anagrams from letters in mooned (demnoo).

Definitions for mooned

noun

1. the earth's natural satellite, orbiting the earth at a mean distance of 238,857 miles (384,393 km) and having a diameter of 2160 miles (3476 km).
2. this body during a particular lunar month, or during a certain period of time, or at a certain point of time, regarded as a distinct object or entity. Compare full moon, half-moon, new moon, waning moon, waxing moon.
3. a lunar month, or, in general, a month.
4. any planetary satellite:
5. something shaped like an orb or a crescent.
6. moonlight.
7. a platyfish.
8. Slang. the buttocks, especially when bared.

Idioms

1. blue moon, a very long period of time:

adjective

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

verb (used with object)

1. to spend (time) idly:
2. to illuminate by or align against the moon.
3. Slang. to expose one's buttocks to as a prank or gesture of disrespect.

verb (used without object)

1. to act or wander abstractedly or listlessly:
2. to sentimentalize or remember nostalgically:
3. to gaze dreamily or sentimentally at something or someone:
4. Slang. to expose one's buttocks suddenly and publicly as a prank or gesture of disrespect.

Origin of mooned

First recorded in 1540-50; moon + -ed³

Examples for mooned

Eugene mooned through his studies, learning nothing practical.

All that day we mooned at our work, with suspicious looks and a disabused air.

I might have mooned away the afternoon in the Park and dined at the Club.

In his spare time he mooned about by himself, shy, disgusted, and miserable.

Kayerts mooned about silently; spent hours looking at the portrait of his Melie.

He repented of his first revulsion, mooned at her feet, and happily drove her home.

Vanderbank again, as the phrase is, "mooned" about a little.

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

Correy mooned around the Arpan sub-base like a fractious child.

"I guess Mrs. Cowles is kind of lonely without her," Ben mooned.