Vocab: Moon

Aloha Folks,

What with the brouhaha over the presence of water on the moon yet to subside I thought it would be the right time to look at the moon from another perspective - The perspective of language.

While the moon is usually associated with the nice, soft and romantic feelings some of the words here are anything but nice and soft.

Here are a few of those words…


Moon curser
Someone who imports or exports without paying duties. A smuggler!!!

Moonblink
A temporary blindness, or impairment of sight, said to be caused by sleeping in the moonlight.

Moon⋅child
A person born under the zodiacal sign of Cancer.
So called because of the astrological pairing of the moon with Cancer

Moon⋅light
To work at an additional job after one's regular, full-time employment, at night.

Moon⋅shine
Smuggled or illicitly distilled liquor, esp. corn liquor as illicitly distilled chiefly in rural areas of the southern U.S.
Empty or foolish talk, ideas, etc.; nonsense.


And on that note it is time to stop my moonshine…

Ciao