moonful

English

Etymology 1

From moon +‎ -ful.

Adjective

moonful (not comparable)

1. Marked by the presence of the moon.

   Antonym: moonless

   Near-synonym: moonlit

   • 1986, Steve Erickson, Rubicon Beach‎^[1], Open Road Integrated Media, published 2013, →ISBN:

     She sobbed herself to sleep and then dreamed she was walking on a beach on a moonful night, a strange but distantly known city on the horizon.

   • 2008, Thomas Glave, The Torturer's Wife‎^[2], City Lights Books, →ISBN:

     Yet let it also be known that long before that dire time, on a future moonful night, a voice shall rise up out of the yawning sea and recall it: […]

   • 2008, Susan Zwinger, Ann Zwinger, “Learning Nature Through the Senses”, in Teaching About Place: Learning from the Land, University of Nevada Press, →ISBN, page 20:

     I, Susan, remember dressing exotically, eating organic foods, and exploring the duende of deep flamenco passion, playing the guitar on hilltops on moonful nights.

2. Resembling the moon in some manner, such as being round, bright, etc.
   • 1866 January 1, Andrew Wynter, “Distinguished Settlers from Abroad”, in Good Words, page 47:

     The cattle-shed is equally curious, containing specimens of the genus Bos, the Brahmin cattle with their mild moonful eyes, […]

   • 2002, James Webb, Lost Soldiers, Dell, →ISBN, page 152:

     Muir sipped the last of his coffee, his moonful face breaking into a knowing grin.

   • 2009, Jake Packard, The Manhattan Prophet, Bascom Hill Publishing Group, →ISBN, page 9:

     There was a new respect or at least a curiosity in his limpid, moonful face as he reached me.

Etymology 2

From moon +‎ -ful.

Noun

moonful (plural moonfuls)

1. An amount sufficient to fill the moon.
   • 1865 October, “Wilhelm Meisters Apprenticeship”, in The Atlantic Monthly, page 451:

     For suggestion of what one may really do, and for impelling one toward the practicable best, I find this book worth a moonful of " Consuelos."

   • 2001, Radiohead, “Pyramid Song”, in Amnesiac:

     I jumped in the river, what did I see? / Black-eyed angels swam with me / A moonful of stars and astral cars / And all the figures I used to see

   • 2003, Robert A. Metzger, Picoverse, Ace Books, →ISBN, page 320:

     The number of calculations became boundless; not even a moonful of machinery would be able to track and predict the trajectories.

Anagrams

• mouflon