Archaic spelling of munshi.

plural of moonshi

plural of moonshiner

(informal, US) Illicit production and distribution of liquor.

(obsolete) Moonlit; lit by moonlight. / (dated, colloquial) Crazy; nonsensical; ludicrous.

plural of moonshiner's turn

(mathematics) A mysterious connection between Niemeier lattices and Ramanujan's mock theta functions; a generalization of the Mathieu moonshine phenomenon connecting representations of the Mathieu group M24 with K3 surfaces.

Alternative form of moonshiny

(colloquial, US) A rapid illegal U-turn performed by putting the car in neutral and applying the hand brake, thereby producing a controlled skid, with the car still moving backwards when forward power is again applied.

Someone who makes or distributes moonshine