Moonshine

Word MOONSHINE
Character 9
Hyphenation moon shine
Pronunciations /ˈmuːnʃaɪn/

Definitions and meanings of "Moonshine"

What do we mean by moonshine?

Moonlight. noun

Foolish talk or thought; nonsense. noun

Illegally distilled whiskey. noun

To distill and sell liquor illegally. intransitive verb

The shining or light of the moon. noun

Figuratively (as light without heat), show without substance or reality: pretense; empty show; fiction: as, that's all moonshine. noun

A month. noun

A dish of poached eggs served with a sauce. noun

Smuggled spirits: so called as being brought in or taken away at night. noun

Illuminated by the moon.

Nocturnal.

Empty; trivial.

Moonlight. adjective

Empty; trivial; idle. adjective

Designating, or pertaining to, illicit liquor. adjective

The light of the moon. noun

Hence, show without substance or reality. noun

A month. noun

A preparation of eggs for food. noun

Liquor smuggled or illicitly distilled, especially liquor distilled illegally in rural parts of the southern U. S. noun

The light of the moon; moonlight.

High-proof alcohol (especially whiskey) that is often, but not always, produced illegally.

Nonsense.

A branch of pure mathematics relating the Monster group to an invariant of elliptic functions.

A spiced dish of eggs and fried onions.

A month.

Synonyms and Antonyms for Moonshine

The word "moonshine" in example sentences

John Boy Walton --- stole moonshine from the Baldwin Sisters 'still. ❋ Unknown (2008)

A visit today to a United States District Court in most any section of the Blue Ridge Country where makers of illicit whiskey are being tried shows that the name moonshine no longer applies to the beverage. ❋ Jean Thomas (1945)

It had also spawned an underground, tax-free trade in an illegal substance that would forever be known as moonshine, and a collection apparatus staffed by men from the Bureau of Internal Revenue who would forever be known as revenuers. ❋ DANIEL OKRENT (2010)

The skills required were not all that different from making moonshine, which is why whiskey makers went into oil refining in the nineteenth century. ❋ Daniel Yergin (2008)

It used to be called moonshine, now you probably call it white gold because the price of ethanol is going up, but causing some problems, too. ❋ Unknown (2006)

I recall the moonshine upon their faces, the swift dartings of their faintly luminous blades, their strangely altering shadows on the snow as they moved, the steady attention of us who looked on, the moan of the wind among the trees upon the neighbouring heights, the sound of the men's tramping on the crusted snow, the clear clink of their weapons, sometimes the noise of their breathing. ❋ Robert Neilson Stephens (1886)

ROCKY MOUNT - Franklin County is known for its "white lightning" (aka moonshine), but the ❋ Unknown (2010)

This appalling, 30-proof abomination is neither moonshine, which is the clear, high-octane alcohol that screams off a homemade still -- nor, we're betting, does it contain any actual peach. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Possession of the moonshine is a Class 1 misdemeanor, the most serious kind of misdemeanor. ❋ Unknown (2009)

When you think that some people make illegal alcohol, otherwise known as moonshine which under current laws in your country is illegal, I would doubt very much that you would have a law in place saying you can't distill water, even Alex Jones promotes a home still to purify your water. ❋ Unknown (2009)

"Our moonshine is a sugar-beet product," said Fred Linneman, Mystic Mountain's distiller and operations manager. ❋ Unknown (2008)

It got the name "moonshine" during Prohibition after the light by which mash men tended their illegal stills. ❋ Unknown (2005)

The lyrics to this particular Laura Nyro song, about drinking 'moonshine' and hoping Mom doesn't find out about it, clearly meant nothing to Sinatra. 1 ❋ Taraborrelli, J. R. (1997)

The perfect order which prevailed throughout the exercises was in striking contrast to former days when pistols and "moonshine" whiskey were most fearfully in evidence. ❋ Various (N/A)

I didn’t think I’d told Morris the title of my book, and they don’t call moonshine “white dog” in Franklin County. ❋ MAX WATMAN (2010)

Amid that cool atmosphere cats would also get all fired up on devil’s water, aka moonshine, and start breaking stuff. ❋ Trick Daddy (2010)

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