moonshine als zelfstandig naamwoord: - 1
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als werkwoord: - 1
moonshine
zelfstandig naamwoord
1 moonshine
The light of the Moon.
synoniemen: Moon, moonlight.
Roget 497:
absurdity,
absurdness
etc.
adj.;
imbecility
etc.
499;
alogy†,
nonsense,
utter nonsense;
paradox,
inconsistency;
stultiloquy†,
stultiloquence†;
nugacity†.
blunder,
muddle,
bull;
Irishism†,
Hibernicism†;
slipslop†;
anticlimax,
bathos;
sophism
etc.
477.
farce,
galimathias†,
amphigouri†,
rhapsody;
farrago
etc.
(disorder)
59;
betise [Fr.];
extravagance,
romance;
sciamachy†.
sell,
pun,
verbal quibble,
macaronic†.
jargon,
fustian,
twaddle,
gibberish
etc.
(no meaning)
517;
exaggeration
etc.
549;
moonshine,
stuff;
mare's nest,
quibble,
self-delusion.
vagary,
tomfoolery,
poppycock,
mummery,
monkey trick,
boutade [Fr.],
escapade.
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Roget 617:
pretext,
pretense,
pretension,
plea†;
allegation,
advocation;
ostensible motive,
ostensible ground,
ostensible reason,
phony reason;
excuse
etc.
(vindication)
937;
subterfuge;
color;
gloss,
guise,
cover.
loop hole,
starting hole;
how to creep out of,
salvo,
come off;
way of escape.
handle,
peg to hang on,
room locus standi [Lat.];
stalking-horse,
cheval de bataille [Fr.],
cue.
pretense
etc.
(untruth)
546;
put off,
dust thrown in the eyes;
blind;
moonshine;
mere pretext,
shallow pretext;
lame excuse,
lame apology;
tub to a whale;
false plea,
sour grapes;
makeshift,
shift,
white lie;
special pleading
etc.
(sophistry)
477;
soft sawder
etc.
(flattery)
933†.
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Roget 517:
meaninglessness,
unmeaningness
etc.
adj.†;
scrabble.
empty sound,
dead letter,
vox et praeterea nihil [Lat.];
a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing;"
sounding brass and a tinkling cymbal. "
nonsense,
utter nonsense,
gibberish;
jargon,
jabber,
mere words,
hocus-pocus,
fustian,
rant,
bombast,
balderdash,
palaver,
flummery,
verbiage,
babble,
baverdage,
baragouin†,
platitude,
niaiserie†;
inanity;
flap-doodle;
rigmarole,
rodomontade;
truism;
nugae canorae [Lat.];
twaddle,
twattle,
fudge,
trash,
garbage,
humbug;
poppy-cock [U.S.];
stuff,
stuff and nonsense;
bosh,
rubbish,
moonshine,
wish-wash,
fiddle-faddle;
absurdity
etc.
497;
vagueness
etc.
(unintelligibility)
519.
[routine or reflexive statements without substantive thought, esp. legal]
boilerplate,
clich??.
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Roget 422:
dimness
etc.
adj.;
darkness
etc.
421;
paleness
etc.
(light color)
429.
half light,
demi-jour;
partial shadow,
partial eclipse;
shadow of a shade;
glimmer,
gliming†;
nebulosity;
cloud
etc.
353;
eclipse.
aurora,
dusk,
twilight,
shades of evening,
crepuscule,
cockshut time†;
break of day,
daybreak,
dawn.
moonlight,
moonbeam,
moonglade†,
moonshine;
starlight,
owl's light,
candlelight,
rushlight,
firelight;
farthing candle.
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Roget 4:
unsubstantiality†,
insubstantiality;
nothingness,
nihility†;
no degree,
no part,
no quantity,
no thing.
nothing,
naught,
nil,
nullity,
zero,
cipher,
no one,
nobody;
never a one,
ne'er a one [Contr.];
no such thing,
none in the world;
nothing whatever,
nothing at all,
nothing on earth;
not a particle
etc.
(smallness)
32;
all talk,
moonshine,
stuff and nonsense;
matter of no importance,
matter of no consequence.
thing of naught,
man of straw,
John Doe and Richard Roe,
faggot voter;
nominis umbra [Lat.],
nonentity;
flash in the pan,
vox et praeterea nihil [Lat.].
shadow;
phantom
etc.
(fallacy of vision)
443;
dream
etc.
(imagination)
515;
ignis fatuus [Lat.]
etc.
(luminary)
423;
such stuff as dreams are made of"
[Tempest];
air,
thin air,
vapor;
bubble
etc.
353;
baseless fabric of a vision"
[Tempest];
mockery.
hollowness,
blank;
void
etc.
(absence)
187.
inanity,
fool's paradise.
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Roget 546:
untruth,
falsehood,
lie,
story,
thing that is not,
fib,
bounce,
crammer,
taradiddle†,
whopper;
jhuth†.
forgery,
fabrication,
invention;
misstatement,
misrepresentation;
perversion,
falsification,
gloss,
suggestio falsi [Lat.];
exaggeration
etc.
549.
invention,
fabrication,
fiction;
fable,
nursery tale;
romance
etc.
(imagination)
515;
absurd story,
untrue story,
false story,
trumped up story,
trumped up statement;
thing devised by the enemy;
canard;
shave,
sell,
hum,
traveler's tale,
Canterbury tale,
cock and bull story,
fairy tale,
fake;
claptrap.
press agent's yarn;
puff,
puffery
(exaggeration)
549.
myth,
moonshine,
bosh,
all my eye and Betty Martin,
mare's nest,
farce.
irony;
half truth,
white lie,
pious fraud;
mental reservation
etc.
(concealment)
528.
pretense,
pretext;
false plea
etc.
617;
subterfuge,
evasion,
shift,
shuffle,
make-believe;
sham
etc.
(deception)
545.
profession,
empty words;
Judas kiss
etc.
(hypocrisy)
544;
disguise
etc.
(mask)
530.
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Nederlands: maanlicht, maneschijn
Pools: księżyc
2 moonshine
Whiskey illegally distilled from a corn mash.
synoniemen: bootleg, corn liquor.
Pools: bimber, krzakówka, księżycówka, samogon
werkwoord
1 moonshine
Distill (alcohol) illegally; produce moonshine.
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