English Dictionary

moonshine

IPA（発音記号）

/ˈmuːnʃaɪn/

名詞

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(literally) The light of the moon. / (informal) High-proof alcohol (especially whiskey) that is often, but not always, produced illegally. / (colloquial) Nonsense.

日本語の意味

月の光 / 違法製造されることが多い高濃度なアルコール飲料（特にウイスキー） / たわごと、ナンセンス

We walked along the riverbank, guided only by the pale moonshine.

私たちは川岸を歩き、淡い月明かりだけに導かれていた。

意味（1）

(literally) The light of the moon.

… her Waggon Spokes made of long Spinners legs: the Couer of the wings of Graſhoppers, her Traces of the ſmalleſt Spiders web, her coullers of the Moonſhines watry Beames …

意味（2）

(informal) High-proof alcohol (especially whiskey) that is often, but not always, produced illegally.

They watered down the moonshine.

意味（3）

(colloquial) Nonsense.

He was talking moonshine.

意味（4）

(mathematics) A branch of pure mathematics relating the Monster group to an invariant of elliptic functions.

意味（5）

(US, cooking) A spiced dish of eggs and fried onions.

意味（6）

(obsolete) A month.

… wherefore ſhould I / Stand in the plague of cuſtome, and permit / The curioſity of Nations to depriue me? / For that I am ſome twelue, or fourteene Moonſhines / Lag of a brother?

moonshines （ plural ）