different between mooner vs moonet

English

moon +? -er

mooner (plural mooners)

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.
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.
A lunatic.

moon +? -et

moonet (plural moonets)

(archaic) A little moon; a moonlet.
- 1658, Joseph Hall, The Devout Soul, Or, Rules of Heavenly Devotion Also the Free Prisoner, Or, the Comfort of Restraint
  […] they may discover a better face of heaven; some lesser planets moving round about the sun, and the moonets about Saturn and Jupiter […]

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