different between moonshiney vs moonshine

English

Adjective

moonshiney (comparative more moonshiney, superlative most moonshiney)

1. Alternative form of moonshiny

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)

1. (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? [...]”

2. (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.”
3. (colloquial) Nonsense.
4. (mathematics) A branch of pure mathematics relating the Monster group to an invariant of elliptic functions.
5. (US, cooking) A spiced dish of eggs and fried onions.
6. (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)

1. (rare) moonshine (Appalachian home-made liquor)