moonshine

noun · verbB2

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noun

Plural noun:

moonshinesmoon-shine

1.
(countable, literally, uncountable)The light of the moon.
[…] O Nymph more bright than moon-ſhine night, like Kidlings blithe and merry […]
2.
(countable, informal, uncountable)High-proof alcohol (especially whiskey) that is often, but not always, produced illegally.
They watered down the moonshine.
Đồng nghĩa: bathtub gin, bootleg, coon dick, corn liquor, hooch, moonlight, mountain dew, white lightning
3.
(UK, archaic, countable, dialectal, uncountable)Smuggled spirits, often with a specific sense; (Kent, Sussex) white brandy; (Yorkshire) gin.
Đồng nghĩa: moonlight
4.
(informal, uncountable)Nonsense.
He was talking moonshine.
5.
(uncountable)(mathematics, uncountable) A branch of pure mathematics relating the Monster group to an invariant of elliptic functions.
6.
(US, countable, uncountable)(US, cooking) A spiced dish of eggs and fried onions.
7.
(countable, obsolete, uncountable)A month.

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verb

V_es/s

moonshines

V_ing/Gerund

moonshining

V_ed/pp

moonshined

1.
(intransitive)To make homemade (especially, illicit) alcohol, especially distilled spirits.
His grandfather started to moonshine when things got really bad in 1933; when he got caught moonshining, he did a bit of time.
2.
(transitive)To make (an ingredient) into such a drink.

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Đồng nghĩa

bathtub ginbootlegcoon dickcorn liquorhooch moonlightmountain dewwhite lightningcoon-dickcoondickmoonbeammoon-lightmoon lightmoon-beammoon beam

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Nguồn gốc từ

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.