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Meanings of moon (mooning) in English

The sole natural satellite of the Earth.

Usage of mooning in English
1
An undergraduate in spectacles came mooning along, all out of his element.
Hard Cash
2
He sat mooning on, never giving them the least hint to depart.
Elster's Folly: A Novel
3
He goes mooning round and mooning round, and never saying a word.
An Algonquin Maiden: A Romance of the Early Days of Upper Canada
4
He could not sit here, he told himself, mooning the afternoon away.
Way Station
5
I hear they've been mooning around for years without a red penny.
Flappers and Philosophers
6
He had gone off mooning, leaving her to fight her own fight.
The Triflers
7
Yes, he was mooning about, and rather bothered what to do next.
Herb of Grace
8
He has looked very vague, not to say mooning, since his return.
Senator North
9
Ella is mooning around, moaning that her kids grew up too fast.
Vicious
10
However, Rhoda was right, and this mooning wouldn't bring Gerrit into port.
Java Head
11
Perhaps because I'm not desperately in love with mooning about up here-
When We Dead Awaken
12
When you go out mooning again please take me along, will you?
Flower of the North: A Modern Romance
13
Why didn't I think of that before, instead of standing here mooning?
The Moving Picture Boys at Panama; Or, Stirring Adventures Along...
14
Sorina of Dacia, the Right Hand of Decabalus mooning over a younger woman.
Imperatrix
15
She shouldn't be mooning around about how things weren't absolutely perfect.
Shadow zone
16
Manning denied the accusation, saying he was mooning a fellow athlete.
The Guardian
About this term
Mooning through the time
Mooning across language varieties
United Kingdom
Common
United States of America
Common