moon
verb/muːn/
/muːn/
[intransitive, transitive] (informal)Verb Forms
Phrasal Verbs| present simple I / you / we / they moon | /muːn/ /muːn/ |
| he / she / it moons | /muːnz/ /muːnz/ |
| past simple mooned | /muːnd/ /muːnd/ |
| past participle mooned | /muːnd/ /muːnd/ |
| -ing form mooning | /ˈmuːnɪŋ/ /ˈmuːnɪŋ/ |
- to show your bottom to people in a public place as a joke or a way to cause offence
- moon at somebody The crew dropped their trousers and mooned at the people on the shore.
- moon somebody He suddenly bent over and mooned the crowd.
Word OriginOld English mōna, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch maan and German Mond, also to month, from an Indo-European root shared by Latin mensis and Greek mēn ‘month’, and also Latin metiri ‘to measure’ (the moon being used to measure time).
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