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moonshine
English
Etymology
moon +? shine. Illegally distilled liquor is so named because its manufacture may be conducted without artificial light at night-time.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?mu?n?a?n/
- Hyphenation: moon?shine
Noun
moonshine (countable and uncountable, plural moonshines)
- (literally) The light of the moon.
- Synonyms: moonlight, moonbeam
- 1718, John Gay, “O ruddier than the Cherry”, from Act 2 of George Frideric Handel’s opera Acis and Galatea, page 47:
- [...] O Nymph more bright than moon-?hine night, like Kidlings blithe and merry [...]
- 1798, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, The Rime of the Ancient Mariner in Lyrical Ballads, Part I, page 10:
- In mist or cloud on mast or shroud / It perch’d for vespers nine, / Whiles all the night thro’ fog smoke-white / Glimmer’d the white moon-shine.
- 1885, Richard F. Burton, The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night:
- So I came forth of the sea and sat down on the edge of an island in the moonshine, where a passer-by found me and, carrying me to the his house, besought me of love-liesse; but I smote him on the head, so that he all but died; whereupon he carried me forth and sold me to the merchant from whom thou hadst me, [...]
- 1908, Lucy Maud Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables, Chapter 2,[2]
- “[...] it would be lovely to sleep in a wild cherry-tree all white with bloom in the moonshine, don’t you think? [...]”
- (informal) High-proof alcohol (especially whiskey) that is often, but not always, produced illegally.
- Synonyms: bathtub gin, bootleg, corn liquor, hooch, mountain dew, white lightning, coon-dick, coondick
- 1920, Peter B. Kyne, The Understanding Heart, Chapter IV
- “Wish I'd been more polite to that girl,” the sheriff remarked regretfully. [...] I know she’d have give me another drink of that old moonshine she has.”
- (colloquial) Nonsense.
- (mathematics) A branch of pure mathematics relating the Monster group to an invariant of elliptic functions.
- (US, cooking) A spiced dish of eggs and fried onions.
- (obsolete) A month.
Derived terms
- eggs in moonshine
- Mathieu moonshine
- monstrous moonshine
- moonshiney, moonshiny
- umbral moonshine
Translations
Further reading
- moonshine at OneLook Dictionary Search
Portuguese
Noun
moonshine m (uncountable)
- (rare) moonshine (Appalachian home-made liquor)
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poteen
English
Etymology
From Irish poitín (“little pot; poteen”), from pota (“pot”) (from Middle English potte, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *budn- (“type of vessel”)) + -ín (“suffix forming diminutives”).
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation, General American) IPA(key): /p??t?i?n/, /p??ti?n/
- (Ireland) IPA(key): /p??t(?)i?n/, /?p?.t(?)i?n/
- Rhymes: -i?n
- Hyphenation: pot?een
Noun
poteen (countable and uncountable, plural poteens)
- (Ireland, countable, uncountable) Illegally produced Irish whiskey; moonshine. [from early 19th c.]
- 20th century, Stuart Howard-Jones (1904–1974), “Hibernia”, in Kingsley Amis, comp., The New Oxford Book of English Light Verse, New York, N.Y.: Oxford University Press, 1978, ?ISBN, page 243:
- Last night he had put down too much Potheen / (A vulgar blend of Methyl and Benzene) / That, at some Wake, he might the better keen. / (Keen—meaning ‘brisk’? Nay, here the Language warps: / ’Tis singing bawdy Ballads to a Corpse.)
- 20th century, Stuart Howard-Jones (1904–1974), “Hibernia”, in Kingsley Amis, comp., The New Oxford Book of English Light Verse, New York, N.Y.: Oxford University Press, 1978, ?ISBN, page 243:
- (Ireland, countable, by extension) An unlicensed drinking establishment selling illegally produced Irish whiskey.
Alternative forms
- poitin
- potcheen
- potheen
- potteen
Translations
References
Further reading
- poitín on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Anagrams
- Petone, pontee
Manx
Noun
poteen m (genitive singular [please provide], plural [please provide])
- poteen
Mutation
Spanish
Verb
poteen
- Third-person plural (ellos, ellas, also used with ustedes?) present subjunctive form of potear.
- Second-person plural (ustedes) imperative form of potear.
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