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mooner

Noun CEFR B1

Definitions

  1. One who abstractedly wanders or gazes about.
  2. Someone who moons (drops their pants and shows their bare buttocks in public).
  3. A lunatic.

Examples

“A "mooner," fond of staring into shop⟳ windows, or watching the labourers pulling up the pavement to inspect⟳ the gas-pipes, or listening stolidly to the dull "pech" of the paviour's rammer on the flags.”
“Though not an exhibitionist mooner like⟳ Rousseau, Jacques offers us his belaboured rump as an image of a brutalised, not loveless but misloved, childhood .”

CEFR level

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This word is part of the CEFR B1 vocabulary — intermediate level.
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