About The Word Moonshine
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Moonshine
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What's The Definition Of Moonshine?
[n] whiskey illegally distilled from a corn mash
[n] the light of the moon; "moonlight is the smuggler's enemy"; "the moon was bright enough to read by" [v] distill (alcohol) illegally; produce moonshine Synonyms | Synonyms for Moonshine: bootleg | corn liquor | moon | moonlight Related Terms | Find terms related to Moonshine: argument | argument by analogy | argumentum ad baculum | argumentum ad captandum | argumentum ad hominem | bad case | balderdash | balls | baloney | bathtub gin | begging the question | bilge | black-market | black-marketeer | blague | blah | blah-blah | blather | blatherskite | blether | blockade | bootleg | bootleg liquor | bop | bosh | brew | BS | bull | bullshit | bunk | bunkum | circular argument | claptrap | con | crap | crowd-pleasing argument | distill | drivel | empty words | eyewash | fallacy | fence | flam | flapdoodle | flimflam | formal fallacy | gammon | garbage | gas | guff | gup | hogwash | hoke | hokum | home brew | hooch | hooey | hot air | humbug | humbuggery | hysteron proteron | insincere argument | jiggery-pokery | jive | line | logical fallacy | malarkey | material fallacy | mere rhetoric | moonbeam | moonglow | moonlight | mountain dew | non sequitur | paralogism | petitio principii | philosophism | piffle | poppycock | pseudosyllogism | push | rot | rubbish | scat | shine | shit | shove | smoke | solecism | sophism | sophistry | stuff and nonsense | taradiddle | tommyrot | tripe | twaddle | verbal fallacy | weak point | white lightning | white mule | wind See Also | corn | corn whiskey | corn whisky | distil | distill | extract | light | moonbeam | moonray | visible light | visible radiation Moonshine In Webster's Dictionary \Moon"shine`\, n.
1. The light of the moon.
2. Hence, show without substance or reality.
3. A month. [R.] --Shak.
4. A preparation of eggs for food. [Obs.]
\Moon"shine`\, a. Moonlight. [R.] --Clarendon. \Moon"shine`\, n. Liquor smuggled or illicitly distilled. [Dial. Eng., & Colloq. or Slang, U. S.] \Moon"shine`\, a. 1. Empty; trivial; idle. 2. Designating, or pertaining to, illicit liquor; as, moonshine whisky. [Dial. Eng., & Colloq. or Slang, U. S.] |
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