Moonshine

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. Moonlight.
  • n. Informal Foolish talk or thought; nonsense.
  • n. Illegally distilled whiskey. Also called regionally white lightning.
  • verb-intransitive. To distill and sell liquor illegally.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. The light of the moon; moonlight.
  • n. Illegally distilled liquor, so named because much of the manufacturing process often is conducted without artificial light at night when the moon is shining.
  • n. nonsense
  • n. A branch of pure mathematics relating the monster group to an invariant of elliptic functions; see monstrous moonshine.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. The light of the moon.
  • n. Hence, show without substance or reality.
  • n. A month.
  • n. A preparation of eggs for food.
  • n. Liquor smuggled or illicitly distilled, especially liquor distilled illegally in rural parts of the southern U. S.
  • adj. Moonlight.
  • adj. Empty; trivial; idle.
  • adj. Designating, or pertaining to, illicit liquor.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. The shining or light of the moon.
  • n. Figuratively (as light without heat), show without substance or reality: pretense; empty show; fiction: as, that's all moonshine.
  • n. A month.
  • n. A dish of poached eggs served with a sauce.
  • n. Smuggled spirits: so called as being brought in or taken away at night.
  • Illuminated by the moon.
  • Nocturnal.
  • Empty; trivial.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. whiskey illegally distilled from a corn mash
  • v. distill (alcohol) illegally; produce moonshine
  • n. the light of the Moon
  • Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    corn whisky    corn whiskey    corn    distil    extract   
    Form
    moonshiny    moonshiney   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    month    moonlight    empty    trivial    idle   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    starlight    balderdash    twaddle    fustian    firelight