mooner
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Noun
[edit]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).
- 1992, W. D. Redfern, Feet First: Jules Vallès, page 93:
- Though not an exhibitionist mooner like Rousseau, Jacques offers us his belaboured rump as an image of a brutalised, not loveless but misloved, childhood .
- 2009 October 13, “Train drags mooner half-naked along tracks”, in Sydney Morning Herald:
- A lunatic.