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Meanings of moon about in English

Be apathetic, gloomy, or dazed.

Synonyms
Examples for "mope"
Examples for "mope"
1
Are you really going to mope your way through the New Year?
Any way you want me
2
All the rest of the day he would mope in silent wretchedness.
Hero Tales and Legends of the Rhine
3
I'm not going to complain, I'm not going to mope about it.
Reuters
4
Ma tolerates you, just lets you sit around the house and mope.
Depraved
5
She would not mope, and she would not show the white feather.
One Man in His Time
1
The goddamn Reds have put some type of moon around the earth.
Riding rockets
2
She couldn't moon around worrying about what Adam thought of her.
Rock my world
3
You know, we never did moon around as other boys and girls did.
The Troll Garden, and Selected Stories
4
But what about the path of the moon around the Sun?
Wired
5
He was expected to moon around the campus oblivious of the world around him.
My Discovery of England
Usage of moon about in English
1
I've spoken to His Highness and he's over the moon about this result.
News.com.au
2
Indeed club secretary Brian Thorburn enthused: We are over the moon about it.
The Irish Times
3
The booster's third stage hit the moon about a half-hour later.
Wired
4
I'm just over the moon about it. With Australian Associated Press
The Guardian
5
Through the long hot days they moon about the empty yard.
Waiting for the Barbarians
6
The tide flows at the full and change of the moon about 11 o'clock.
A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume...
7
That's when she asked him, and he seemed over the moon about the idea.
Tell the Wolves I’m Home
8
The booster's third stage hit the moon about half-an-hour later.
Wired
9
I'll always be over the moon about being a dad.
The Guardian
10
You mustn't go and moon about by yourself, like this.
The Devil's Garden
11
And yes, I am over the moon about that.
Feminist dot com
12
I am just over the moon about the record.
The Guardian
13
How a woman can moon about and do nothing is more than I can understand.
The Imaginary Marriage
14
It's the mana that's been returned to us that we are over the moon about.
Radio NZ
15
Not really understanding, now, why she'd been so over the moon about dear old Steve.
The lake
16
Zondiwe is over the moon about her son's announcement.
The South African
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