Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Like the moon; variable as the moon; fickle; flighty.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Like the moon; variable.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective influenced by the moon
  • adjective capricious (compare lunatic)

Etymologies

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From moon + -ish.

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Examples

  • A redhead with freckles, Margaret looked to be in her early sixties with a round, moonish face and thin nose.

    Three Stages of Amazement Carol Edgarian 2011

  • A redhead with freckles, Margaret looked to be in her early sixties with a round, moonish face and thin nose.

    Three Stages of Amazement Carol Edgarian 2011

  • These were the ones whose jeans looked uncomfortably snug, whose faces had a moonish quality that didn't quite seem accustomed, who cloaked themselves in voluminous hoodies.

    Your college kid, plus 15 Jennifer LaRue Huget 2010

  • In her forties, Dance guessed, she had a round figure and her face was moonish.

    Roadside Crosses Jeffery Deaver 2009

  • In her forties, Dance guessed, she had a round figure and her face was moonish.

    Roadside Crosses Jeffery Deaver 2009

  • In her forties, Dance guessed, she had a round figure and her face was moonish.

    Roadside Crosses Jeffery Deaver 2009

  • He had a moonish face, which is to say round and pale and utterly featureless from a distance.

    Fasting to a Comfortable Death 2009

  • In her forties, Dance guessed, she had a round figure and her face was moonish.

    Roadside Crosses Jeffery Deaver 2009

  • In her forties, Dance guessed, she had a round figure and her face was moonish.

    Roadside Crosses Jeffery Deaver 2009

  • Pluto has only THREE moons, one more than Mars, two more than Earth, and more than Venus or the moonish Mercury, which both have… um… None.

    A Special Message From Scott “Pluto Hayta” Westerfeld « Whatever 2006

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