different between mooner vs moaner

English

Etymology

moon +? -er

Noun

mooner (plural mooners)

1. One who abstractedly wanders or gazes about.
   • 1853, Charles Dickens, Household Words (volume 6, page 387)

     A "mooner," fond of staring into shop windows, or watching the labourers pulling up the pavement to inspect the gas-pipes, or listening stolidly to the dull "pech" of the paviour's rammer on the flags.

2. Someone who moons (drops their pants and shows their bare buttocks in public).
   • 2009 October 13, "Train drags mooner half-naked along tracks", Sydney Morning Herald.
3. A lunatic.

Anagrams

• Monroe, Moreno, morone, no more

English

Etymology

moan +? -er

Noun

moaner (plural moaners)

1. One who makes a moaning sound.
   • 1997, Nancy Rawles, Love Like Gumbo (page 164)

     Elena was a moaner. Sex and moaning had become synonymous to Grace. She had no trouble conceptualizing sex between any two creatures capable of moaning.

2. (derogatory) One who complains.
   • 1998, Saul W. Gellerman, How People Work

     In any big outfit, including this one, you're going to get some bitchers and some moaners.

Derived terms

• moaner's bench

Anagrams

• Anmore, Armeno-, Mareno, Morane, Morena, Ramone, anomer, enamor, maenor, marone, menora, monera, morena