Moonshine

Quick meaning: Moonshine is a noun meaning (literally) The light of the moon.

Meaning

(literally) The light of the moon.

More Meanings

1. (informal) High-proof alcohol (especially whiskey) that is often, but not always, produced illegally.
2. (UK, dialectal, archaic) Smuggled spirits, often with a specific sense; (Kent, Sussex) white brandy; (Yorkshire) gin.
3. (uncountable, informal) Nonsense.
4. (mathematics, uncountable) A branch of pure mathematics relating the Monster group to an invariant of elliptic functions.
5. (US, cooking) A spiced dish of eggs and fried onions.
6. (intransitive) To make homemade (especially, illicit) alcohol, especially distilled spirits.
7. (obsolete) A month.

Example Sentences

They watered down the moonshine.

[…] O Nymph more bright than moon-ſhine night, like Kidlings blithe and merry […]

“[…] it would be lovely to sleep in a wild cherry-tree all white with bloom in the moonshine, don’t you think? […]”

In mist or cloud on mast or shroud / It perch’d for vespers nine, / Whiles all the night thro’ fog smoke-white / Glimmer’d the white moon-shine.

Word Forms

• moonshines
• moon-shine
• moonshining
• moonshined

Synonyms for moonshine

Depending on context, synonyms include bootleg, hooch, moonlight, moon.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include moonlight, moon, hooch, whiskey, stills, moon-shine.

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