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Definition: Moony |
MoonyAdjective1. Lighted by moonlight; "the moonlit landscape". 2. Dreamy in mood or nature; "a woolgathering moment". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "moony" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references) |
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Remus Lupin is a fictional character in the Harry Potter novels.David Thewlis will play Remus Lupin in Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban(2004).
Warning: Spoilers follow
A friend of Harry's father, when at school, he was assigned the nickname "Moony" as he was bitten by a werewolf as a child (and is consequently one now). The "Shrieking Shack" in Hogsmeade is the place where Lupin was taken while at school during his time of transformation, so as not to be a danger to others. He was smuggled there via the secret passage under the whomping willow tree, which was planted for him in his first year there at Hogwarts. He comes to Hogwarts years later (Book 3) as a Defence Against the Dark Arts Teacher.
During his time as a teacher, he was fed a potion by Snape to keep him tame in his wolf state. Lupin was Harry's favourite teacher and in his spare time he taught Harry to defend himself against Dementors. Lupin features in the ending of the third book where he hears Black's story and joins sides with him. At the end of the third book Snape reveals that Lupin is a werewolf which forces Lupin to leave the school. However he reappears later as a member of the Order of the Phoenix in Book 5.
Remus is perhaps derived form the famous Romulus and Remus, the founders of Ancient Rome. The Legend says that the two boys were orphaned and raised by a wolf. Lupin also comes from the Latin word for wolf, lupus.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Remus Lupin."
Synonyms: MoonySynonyms: dreamy (adj), moonlit (adj), woolgathering (adj). (additional references) |
| Antonym: moonless (adj). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Moony |
| Specialty definitions using "moony": Lord. (references) |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | LORD, n. In American society, an English tourist above the state of a costermonger, as, lord 'Aberdasher, Lord Hartisan and so forth. The traveling Briton of lesser degree is addressed as "Sir," as, Sir 'Arry Donkiboi, or 'Amstead 'Eath. The word "Lord" is sometimes used, also, as a title of the Supreme Being; but this is thought to be rather flattery than true reverence. Miss Sallie Ann Splurge, of her own accord, Wedded a wandering English lord -- Wedded and took him to dwell with her "paw," A parent who throve by the practice of Draw. Lord Cadde I don't hesitate to declare Unworthy the father-in-legal care Of that elderly sport, notwithstanding the truth That Cadde had renounced all the follies of youth; For, sad to relate, he'd arrived at the stage Of existence that's marked by the vices of age. Among them, cupidity caused him to urge Repeated demands on the pocket of Splurge, Till, wrecked in his fortune, that gentleman saw Inadequate aid in the practice of Draw, And took, as a means of augmenting his pelf, To the business of being a lord himself. His neat-fitting garments he wilfully shed And sacked himself strangely in checks instead; Denuded his chin, but retained at each ear A whisker that looked like a blasted career. He painted his neck an incarnadine hue Each morning and varnished it all that he knew. The moony monocular set in his eye Appeared to be scanning the Sweet Bye-and-Bye. His head was enroofed with a billycock hat, And his low-necked shoes were aduncous and flat. In speech he eschewed his American ways, Denying his nose to the use of his A's And dulling their edge till the delicate sense Of a babe at their temper could take no offence. His H's -- 'twas most inexpressibly sweet, The patter they made as they fell at his feet! Re-outfitted thus, Mr. Splurge without fear Began as Lord Splurge his recouping career. Alas, the Divinity shaping his end Entertained other views and decided to send His lordship in horror, despair and dismay From the land of the nobleman's natural prey. For, smit with his Old World ways, Lady Cadde Fell -- suffering Caesar! -- in love with her dad! G.J. |
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| "Moony" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 60.00% of the time. "Moony" is used about 5 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 60% | 3 | 202,518 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 40% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Total | 100.00% | 5 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
moony | 26 |
moony padfoot prong wormtail | 8 |
dove moony | 7 |
dove lyrics moony | 3 |
lyrics moony | 2 |
moony paul | 2 |
moony suzuki | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "moony"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | i hënës (lunar), hënor. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | сърповиден (falcate, falcated, falciform, lunar, lunate, sickle), разсеян (absent, absent minded, diffuse, disseminated, distrait, forgetful, oblivious, preoccupied, rare, scatter-brained, stray, unmindful, vacant, wandering, wool gathering), като луна, глуповат (apish, opaque, owlish, simple minded, slow witted, zany), осветен от луната (moonlit), замечтан (dreamy, faraway, languishing, languorous, pensive), лунен (lunar, moonlight). (various references) | |
Czech | praštìný (Batty, cock eyed, crackers, daft, Dotty, loony, mad, moonstruck, muddle-headed, nutty, touched), pomatený (deranged, distempered, haywire, moonstruck, out of one's mind, paranoid, perplexed, scatter-brained, unbalanced). (various references) | |
German | mondförmig. (various references) | |
Hungarian | ábrándozó (dreamer). (various references) | |
Italian | lunato (Crescent, lunate). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | oonymay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | tonto (crazy, dizzy, dotard, dotty, gaby, giddy, light-headed, spellbound, tipsy), sonhador (abstracted, castle-builder, day-dreamer, dreamer, dreamlike, dreamy, star-gazer), lunar (lunar, lunarian, lunary, mole), como luar. (various references) | |
Romanian | visãtor (air-monger, brooding, castle builder, day dreamer, dreamer, lotus eater, notional, pensive, starry eyed, thoughtful, visionary, wistful, wool gathering), luminat de lunã (moonlit), distrat (absent, absent minded, absent-minded, absent-mindedly, abstracted, abstractedly, distracted, forgetful, inattentive, inattentively, moon-struck, mused, vacant, witless, wool gathering), cherchelit (boozy, elevated, fuddled, in liquor, jolly, mixed, on the fuddle, queer, the worse for liquor, tipsy), ca luna, apatic (apathetic, apathetical, apathetically, indifferent, indolently, insensible, lackadaisical, lackadaisically, languid, languidly, listless, sleepy, sluggish, supine, tardy, torpid), ameţit (bewildered, confounded, dizzy, flustered, giddy, groggy, inebriate, intoxicated, muzzy, queer, screwed, silly, squiffy, stupid, tipsy, wild), afumat (boozy, censer, fuddled, half-seasoned, hazy, jolly, pickled, smoke dried, smoky, squiffed). (various references) | |
Russian | рассеянный (absent, absentminded, absent-minded, diffuse, disseminated, dissipated, distracted, distrait, vague, wool gathering), похожий на луну. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | mesečast, sanjarski, rasejan (absentminded, abstracted, wool gathering). (various references) | |
Spanish | distraído (absent, absentminded, absent-minded, abstracted, amusing, casual, distracted, distrait, dreamy, entertaining, faraway, heedless, inattentive, lackadaisical, unobservant, untidy, vacant, vague, wandering). (various references) | |
Swedish | mån- (lunar), tokig (barmy, Batty, bonkers, cock eyed, cockeyed, crack-brained, cracked, crackers, crazy, cuckoo, daffy, daft, demented, Dotty, fruity, gaga, insane, loony, mad, madcap, nuts, ridiculous, touched, wrong), drömsk (dreamy). (various references) | |
Turkish | dalgın (absent, absent minded, abstracted, deep, distrait, dreamy, engrossed, far away, far off, faraway, glassy, lost, meditative, pensive, plunged in thought, preoccupied, reflective, ruminant, ruminative, self-absorbed, stargazer, thoughtful, unheedful, vacant, vacuous, vague, wandering, wistful, woolgathering), ay gibi, ay ışıklı. (various references) | |
Ukrainian | схожий на місяць, освітлений місяцем (moonlit), замріяний (bemused, faraway, mused). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | mơ mộng (dreamily, moonily), giống mặt trăng dãi ánh trăng, có ánh trăng soi thơ thẩn. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Misspellings | |
"Moony" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: coony, maunby, meeny, Moanie, moany, Mokni, Mokoni, Molony, Moncy, mongy, moni, monie, monnie, monny, Monory, monoxy, monry, mony, Mooey, mooly, mooney, moonier, moonys, moosy, mooty, Mooun, morny, motony, mougy, moundy, mouni, moxon, Moyn, Moyon, mozy, Munni, munny, muny, Muong, Muzny, myotomy, Myotonia, nouny, Nowotny, toony, woony, zoony. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "m-n-o-o-y" | |
-1 letter: mono, mony, moon. | |
-2 letters: mon, moo, nom, noo, yom, yon. | |
-3 letters: mo, my, no, om, on, oy, yo. | |
| Words containing the letters "m-n-o-o-y" | |
+1 letter: monody. | |
+2 letters: bionomy, compony, economy, homonym, isonomy, monoecy, mooneye, moonily, toponym. | |
+3 letters: aeronomy, agronomy, autonomy, boogyman, boogymen, commonly, homogeny, homogony, homonyms, homonymy, hymnbook, menology, monitory, monocyte, monogamy, monogeny, monogyny, monology, monopody, monopoly, monosomy, monotony, monotype, mooneyes, moronity, myotonia, myotonic, nomology, nonmoney, oxymoron, taxonomy, tenotomy, theonomy, toponyms, toponymy. | |
+4 letters: amyotonia, anonymous, astronomy, boogeyman, boogeymen, condyloma, cosmogony, dynamotor, eponymous, homonymic, homophony, honeycomb, honeymoon, hymnbooks, hymnology, limnology, moneywort, monkeypod, monocracy, monocytes, monocytic, monolayer, monophagy, monophony, monophyly, monopsony, monorhyme, monostely, monotypes, monotypic, moonishly, mycotoxin, myoclonic, myoclonus, myoglobin, myotonias, noisomely, ominously, oxymorons, polygonum, taphonomy, teleonomy, tonometry, toponymic. | |
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