Adjective: moonshiny
Comparison Forms
Synthetic
Perifrastic
| Comparative | more moonshiny |
| Superlative | most moonshiny |
Sample Sentences
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When Trim, as his custom was, after he had put my uncle Toby to bed, going down one moon-shiny night to see that every thing was right at his fortifications—in the lane separated from the bowling-green with flowering shrubs and holly—he espied his Bridget. [1759, Laurence Sterne, chapter 17, in The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman, volume II:]
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“Oh, the falls!—they are a thing to be looked at on a moonshiny night, by your Aunt Sarah and that gay old bachelor, Colonel Singleton; but a fellow like myself never shows surprise, unless it may be at such a touch as this.” [1821, James Fenimore Cooper, chapter 35, in The Spy:]
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Canvassing it was like fishing for salmon: you might throw out anything in the shape of a fly, the most gaudy, the most moonshiny, the most unlife-like and unrealizable thing that could be fastened upon a hook […] [1853, Broomhill: Or, The County Beauties, page 7:]
Adjectives inflected like moonshiny
priest-ridden,
unreposed,
evadible,
dissentious,
dissentient,
unforesighted,
egocentrical,
unephemeral,
unennobling,
mensuralist,
flocculent,
unseductive,
whoopsy,
whooshy,
surrogate,
Nicodian,
unrepaired,
prismatoidal,
renorenal,
unseducible, etc. (List truncated at 20 adjectives)
Etymology
From moonshine + -y.