Meaning of moonshiny | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Moonlit; lit by moonlight.
   obsolete
2. Crazy; nonsensical; ludicrous.
   colloquial, dated

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Examples

“When Trim, as his custom was, after he had put⟳ my uncle Toby to bed, going down one moon-shiny night to see⟳ that every thing was right at his fortifications—in the lane separated from the bowling-green with flowering shrubs and holly—he espied his Bridget.”

““Oh, the falls!—they are a thing to be looked at on a moonshiny night, by your Aunt Sarah and that gay old bachelor, Colonel Singleton; but a fellow like⟳ myself never shows surprise⟳, unless it may be at such a touch⟳ as this.””

“Canvassing it was like⟳ fishing for salmon: you might throw⟳ out anything in the shape⟳ of a fly⟳, the most gaudy, the most moonshiny, the most unlife-like and unrealizable thing that could be fastened upon a hook […]”

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