Mooner

noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    One who abstractedly wanders or gazes about.

    "A "mooner," fond of staring into shop windows, or watching the labourers pulling up the pavement to inspect the gas-pipes, or listening stolidly to the dull "pech" of the paviour's rammer on the flags."

  2. 2
    Someone who moons (drops their pants and shows their bare buttocks in public).

    "Though not an exhibitionist mooner like Rousseau, Jacques offers us his belaboured rump as an image of a brutalised, not loveless but misloved, childhood ."

  3. 3
    A lunatic.

Example

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"A "mooner," fond of staring into shop windows, or watching the labourers pulling up the pavement to inspect the gas-pipes, or listening stolidly to the dull "pech" of the paviour's rammer on the flags."

Etymology

From moon + -er.

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