moonshine

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. The light of the moon. countable,literally,uncountable
    — […] her Waggon Spokes made of long Spinners legs: the Couer of the wings of Graſhoppers, her Traces of the ſmalleſt Spiders web, her coullers of the Moonſhines watry Beames […]
  2. The light of the moon.; The light reflected off Earth's Moon. countable,literally,uncountable
  3. The light of the moon.; The light reflected off a moon. countable,literally,uncountable
  4. High-proof alcohol (especially whiskey) that is often, but not always, produced illegally. countable,informal,uncountable
    — They watered down the moonshine.
  5. Smuggled spirits, often with a specific sense; (Kent, Sussex) white brandy; (Yorkshire) gin. UK,archaic,countable,dialectal,uncountable
  6. Nonsense. informal,uncountable
    — He was talking moonshine.
  7. A branch of pure mathematics relating the Monster group to an invariant of elliptic functions. uncountable
  8. A spiced dish of eggs and fried onions. US,countable,uncountable
  9. A month. countable,obsolete,uncountable
    — […] wherefore ſhould I / Stand in the plague of cuſtome, and permit / The curioſity of Nations to depriue me? / For that I am ſome twelue, or fourteene Moonſhines / Lag of a brother?
动词 v.
  1. To make homemade (especially, illicit) alcohol, especially distilled spirits. intransitive
    — His grandfather started to moonshine when things got really bad in 1933; when he got caught moonshining, he did a bit of time.
  2. To make (an ingredient) into such a drink. transitive
    — A more practical critic notes that paleolithic man had a very sweet tooth, which he sated with honey. Worse, he moonshined the honey into metheglin, an alcoholic brew. Booze and junk food, in other words, are hardly modern inventions.

词形变化

moonshines plural moon-shine alternative moonshines present,singular,third-person moonshining participle,present moonshined participle,past moonshined past

词汇关系

衍生词
eggs in moonshine Mathieu moonshine monstrous moonshine moonshine pudding moonshiney moonshiny umbral moonshine

词源

词源 1
From Middle English mone schyne, mone-schyne, moone shone; equivalent to moon + shine. Illegally distilled liquor is so named because its manufacture may be conducted without artificial light at night. The verb sense is a back-formation from moonshiner.
词源 2
From Middle English mone schyne, mone-schyne, moone shone; equivalent to moon + shine. Illegally distilled liquor is so named because its manufacture may be conducted without artificial light at night. The verb sense is a back-formation from moonshiner.
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