different between mooner vs nooner

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

noon +? -er

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?nu?n??/

  Rhymes: -u?n?(r)

Noun

nooner (plural nooners)

1. (chiefly US, informal) A sexual encounter during lunch hour, especially one which is illicit.
   • 1998 Dec. 11, Benjamin Lee, Daily Collegian (University Wire), State College Pennsylvania:

     A simple recess for lunch can turn into a nooner—a midday sexual encounter.

   • 2006 Sep. 22, "Funnyman Dennis Miller Returns to FNC!," FOX News:

     If you're going to knock off a nooner with a co-worker at a bad motel you have to scrawl your worn Hancock on the desk blotter.

Hypernyms

• quickie

References

• Random House Webster's Unabridged Electronic Dictionary, 1987-1996.