different between moonbat vs moonrat

English

Etymology

From moon +? bat, first used in the 1940s by the science-fiction writer Robert Heinlein, then used in the term “barking moonbat” coined in 1999 by Perry de Havilland of “The Libertarian Samizdata”, a right-libertarian weblog. This originally referred to both left-wing and right-wing crazy people. Sometimes wrongly claimed to be a corruption of Monbiot (from George Monbiot, British environmentalist and Guardian columnist).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?mu?n?bæt/

Noun

moonbat (plural moonbats)

1. (informal, derogatory) A liberal (someone with a left-wing ideology).

   Synonyms: (derogatory) leftard, (derogatory) libtard

   Coordinate term: wing nut

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:moonbat.

Derived terms

• moonbattery
• moonbatty

Further reading

• The Samizdata glossary

References

English

Alternative forms

• moon rat

Etymology

From moon +? rat, a calque of Malay tikus balan (tikus (“rat”) + bulan (“moon”)).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?mu?n?æt/

Noun

moonrat (plural moonrats)

1. A gymnure, especially the greater gymnure, Echinosorex gymnura.

Translations

Anagrams

• Moronta, manroot