moonery

English

Etymology

From moon +‎ -ery.

Noun

moonery (uncountable)

1. (dated, rare) The conduct of one who moons.
   • a. 1834, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Marginalia:

     […] is it not melancholy to hear a man like Steffens somniloquise in such a mystifying cant of Hylozoism, of Pickism, a hodge-podge of the grossest materialism, and the most fantastic yet maudlin moonery?

References

“moonery”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Anagrams

• Moroney