That old man had been making moonshine for fifty years.
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Moonshine
//ˈmuːnʃaɪn//
Synonyms for "moonshine" (158 found)
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Closest matches (32)
Strong matches (47)
Related words (79)
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2 entrieshas context
4 entriesis a
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10 entriesTranslations
45 translations across 25 languages.
Belarusian
1 entries- самаго́н noun (illicit liquor)
Bulgarian
1 entries- контрабанден алкохол noun (illicit liquor)
Chinese Mandarin
2 entries- 私酒 noun (illicit liquor)
- 私酿酒 noun (illicit liquor)
Esperanto
1 entries- brandaĉo noun (illicit liquor)
Estonian
4 entries- hansa noun (illicit liquor)
- lepikuliisu noun (illicit liquor)
- metsakohin noun (illicit liquor)
- peet noun (illicit liquor)
Finnish
1 entries- pontikka noun (illicit liquor)
French
1 entries- alcool de contrebande noun (illicit liquor)
German
3 entries- Schwarzbrennerei noun (illicit liquor)
- Selbstgebrannter noun (illicit liquor)
- schwarzgebrannter Schnaps noun (illicit liquor)
Indonesian
2 entries- ciu bensin noun (illicit liquor)
- oplosan noun (illicit liquor)
Irish
3 entries- fuisce baile noun (illicit liquor)
- poitín noun (illicit liquor)
- stuif glas noun (illicit liquor)
Japanese
1 entries- 密造酒 noun (illicit liquor)
Kazakh
1 entries- самогон noun (illicit liquor)
Latvian
1 entries- kandža noun (illicit liquor)
Lithuanian
1 entries- samanė noun (illicit liquor)
Māori
1 entries- paekaka noun (illicit liquor)
Norwegian Bokmål
4 entries- HB noun (illicit liquor)
- heimert noun (illicit liquor)
- himkok noun (illicit liquor)
- hjemmebrent noun (illicit liquor)
Norwegian Nynorsk
2 entries- heimebrent noun (illicit liquor)
- heimert noun (illicit liquor)
Polish
4 entries- bimber noun (illicit liquor)
- krzakówka noun (illicit liquor)
- księżycówka noun (illicit liquor)
- samogon noun (illicit liquor)
Portuguese
1 entries- moonshine noun (illicit liquor)
Russian
1 entries- самого́н noun (illicit liquor)
Spanish
1 entries- alcohol ilegal noun (illicit liquor)
Swahili
1 entries- chang'aa noun (illicit liquor)
Swedish
1 entries- hembränt noun (illicit liquor)
Ukrainian
1 entries- самого́н noun (illicit liquor)
Vietnamese
1 entries- rượu ngang noun (illicit liquor)
Sample sentences
27 total sentences available.
Would you like some moonshine?
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It would be lovely to sleep in a wild cherry-tree all white with bloom in the moonshine, don't you think?
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Drinking moonshine can cause blindness.
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Showing 4 of 27 available sentences.
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