What does mooner mean?
Mooner means One who abstractedly wanders or gazes about..
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Pronunciation varies by accent · noun
One who abstractedly wanders or gazes about..
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 .
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Mooner means One who abstractedly wanders or gazes about..
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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.
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