"moonshiny" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "From moonshine + -y.",
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      "form": "more moonshiny",
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          "text": "Coordinate term: sunshiny"
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          "ref": "1759, Laurence Sterne, chapter 17, in The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman, volume II:",
          "text": "When Trim, as his custom was, after he had put my uncle Toby to bed, going down one moon-shiny night to see that every thing was right at his fortifications—in the lane separated from the bowling-green with flowering shrubs and holly—he espied his Bridget.",
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          "ref": "1821, James Fenimore Cooper, chapter 35, in The Spy:",
          "text": "“Oh, the falls!—they are a thing to be looked at on a moonshiny night, by your Aunt Sarah and that gay old bachelor, Colonel Singleton; but a fellow like myself never shows surprise, unless it may be at such a touch as this.”",
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        "Moonlit; lit by moonlight."
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        "(obsolete) Moonlit; lit by moonlight."
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          "ref": "1853, Broomhill: Or, The County Beauties, page 7:",
          "text": "Canvassing it was like fishing for salmon: you might throw out anything in the shape of a fly, the most gaudy, the most moonshiny, the most unlife-like and unrealizable thing that could be fastened upon a hook […]",
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        "Crazy; nonsensical; ludicrous."
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        "(dated, colloquial) Crazy; nonsensical; ludicrous."
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          "text": "When Trim, as his custom was, after he had put my uncle Toby to bed, going down one moon-shiny night to see that every thing was right at his fortifications—in the lane separated from the bowling-green with flowering shrubs and holly—he espied his Bridget.",
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        "(obsolete) Moonlit; lit by moonlight."
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        "(dated, colloquial) Crazy; nonsensical; ludicrous."
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  "word": "moonshiny"
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