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Moonie

Moonie

4 9.9
A person who follows the Unification Church founded by Sun Myung Moon
  • noun
  • /ˈmuːni/
  • Slur
: [término ofensivo para miembro de la Iglesia de la Unificación]
  • And as they were researching the Moonies, because they were part of that plan, the researchers said this is a group with hundreds of front groups.

And so she had this guy on her show who was in the Moonies and his name is Steve Hassan.

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Examples

  • She looked like a Moonie having a major religious experience.

    Fiction book (1990)

  • And so she had this guy on her show who was in the Moonies and his name is Steve Hassan.

    Lex Fridman

  • Went into est, became a Moonie.

    Manhattan (1979)

  • Or a Moonie or a preacher on TV

    Batman: The Killing Joke (2016)

  • London also wrote a regular column for the now-defunct Moonie publication, the New York City Tribune.

    Academic text (1992)

  • I've also written several opinion articles for the Washington Times; that doesn't make me a Moonie.

    Blog text (1)

  • Bill Dembski's co-author in his latest book, Jonathan Wells, who is also a senior fellow at the Discovery Institute, is a Moonie for Pete's sake.

    Blog text (16)

  • At age twenty-one, she joined the Unification Church, and her time as a Moonie, which culminated in a mass wedding at Yankee Stadium (6,500 couples hitched at once), seems to have equipped her with a remarkably flexible sense of her own identity.

    Academic text (1997)

  • Christopher was raised in a Moonie household, where teachings of the Unification Church were a central part of his life.

  • During the debate, she expressed her views on being a Moonie and the community's beliefs.

Synonyms

unificationist
vsMoonie
1 9.4

A member of the Unification Church

is a derogatory label used to insult followers of that movement

Surface Forms

Moonie singular
Moonies plural

Morphology

Moonie = Moon (semi-transparent) = Moon + ie

Formed from the surname 'Moon' plus the diminutive/derivative suffix '-ie' indicating a follower or member, but understanding depends on knowing the person 'Moon' and the informal/derogatory nuance.

Etymology

Moonie comes from the name Moon of the leader Sun Myung Moon and the English ending -ie, which makes a short, informal name like groupie. So, Moonie means a 'follower' of Sun Myung Moon and is often used as an 'insult' rather than a neutral name.