What does moonshiny mean?
Moonshiny means (obsolete) Moonlit; lit by moonlight..
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Pronunciation varies by accent · adjective
(obsolete) Moonlit; lit by moonlight..
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 […]
Use moonshiny when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Moonshiny means (obsolete) Moonlit; lit by moonlight..
Common synonyms include moonlight.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
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.
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