to moon
- verb
- /muːn/
- After finishing my work, I spent the afternoon mooning by the lake, lost in my thoughts.
- mooning around
- waste time mooning
- instead of mooning
Examples
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No time to waste mooning out the window.
Fiction book (1990) -
Well, it's, uh, better than mooning around the deck all night.
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Given what I pay you and how long you moon, you could easily end up owing me money.
Fiction book (1999) -
I mean, I was never one of those little girls who played bride or spent hours mooning over my wedding.
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Finally, my Aunt Dee got tired of me mooning around, as she called it.
Fiction book (1991) -
"For every minute you stand out there mooning over her, I'm going to dock you a dollar.
Fiction book (1999) -
Look, why don't you stop mooning and moping around?
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Same goes for my assistant, Idrissa, the guy I've been mooning over for all these months.
Fiction book (1997) -
I don't understand how, even after Keith did what he did to you, and even in the midst of the shame of being here, you can possibly still be mooning over him.
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Abe Hollenbeck, George's employer, declared it time for him to quit mooning.
Fiction book (1997)
Synonyms
To imagine pleasant things while you are awake and not paying attention
To spend time daydreaming and doing nothing useful
To walk or sit around slowly while feeling sad and lost in thought
To sit or stand and stare while lost in thought
Idioms
- Informal
Tell someone you will do something very big although you cannot do it
Phrasal Verbs
Compounds
A full moon that comes soon after the start of autumn and gives extra light for farmers
- Literature
A shape people imagine on the moon's surface that looks like a face
The moon looks red during a total eclipse when it passes into Earth's shadow because Earth's air filters sunlight
- Specialized
A small tree grown for its pretty, deeply cut leaves that turn bright red in autumn
- Specialized
A smooth rounded sea snail shell with a small top often found on sandy beaches
- UK
A small evergreen bush with soft hairy leaves, yellow summer flowers, and snail-shaped seed pods
- Archaic
Poor sight at night in people and animals often caused by lack of vitamin A
- UK
A plant with tall stems, thin leaves, and clusters of small white or pink flowers
- NSFW
A person who secretly brings goods into or out of a country to avoid paying taxes
- UK
A person who brings goods into or out of a country secretly to avoid paying taxes
- Archaic
A curved part of a fort wall shaped like a half moon for defenders to fire on attackers
A time when the Moon looks like a thin crescent at the start of a new moon cycle
How Dreamy
Surface Forms
Etymology
The verb moon, meaning to daydream, comes from old ideas that the moon makes people 'moonstruck' or dreamy, so to moon is to stare and be lost in thought.