Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A lunatic. See quotation under def. 2.
- noun A Gipsy.
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Examples
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Apparently, in her creepy moon-man language, this must have translated into something insulting, because she rounds on me, angrily telling me that she was there first.
The Weather's Fine, Wish They Weren't Here archmage 2008
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[23] Manifestly "Jack and Jill went up the hill" is more than a Runic rhyme, and like many more of our popular strains might supply us with a most interesting and instructive entertainment; but we must hasten on with the moon-man.
Moon Lore Timothy Harley
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Grandmother Spider was friendly with the fairies and with the sun-god and with the moon-man and all of the animals.
Taytay's Tales 1922
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A few miles further on we came to a water-hole by the side of which the moon-man met a bandicoot woman, and while the two were talking together the fire made by the hawks crept upon them and burnt the woman, who was, however, restored to life again by the moon-man, with whom she then went up into the sky.
The Belief in Immortality and the Worship of the Dead, Volume I (of 3) The Belief Among the Aborigines of Australia, the Torres Straits Islands, New Guinea and Melanesia James George Frazer 1897
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Skol is the wolf that would devour the maiden Sun, and she daily flies from the maw of the terrible beast, and the moon-man flies from the wolf Hate.
Sketch of the Mythology of the North American Indians First Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1879-80, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1881, pages 17-56 John Wesley Powell 1868
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Proft will also remember doing the moon-man skit with Ron Douglas, both of them wearing stools as spacesuits, and studying audience members; and he still talks of the first time he tried his pickpocket bit and ended up shredding Sherohman's pants.
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So long as it was brown people in countries we didn't have to think about, people who dresed funny and spoke some kind of crazy moon-man language and prayed five times a day nobody gave a damn who got killed or how bloody it was.
First Draft 2008
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So long as it was brown people in countries we didn't have to think about, people who dresed funny and spoke some kind of crazy moon-man language and prayed five times a day nobody gave a damn who got killed or how bloody it was.
First Draft 2008
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So long as it was brown people in countries we didn't have to think about, people who dresed funny and spoke some kind of crazy moon-man language and prayed five times a day nobody gave a damn who got killed or how bloody it was.
First Draft 2008
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After years of being denied a moon-man, Britney won every single award she was nominated for this year.
Gammerstang commented on the word moon-man
(noun) - Moon-man signifies in English a madman because the moon hath greatest domination, above any other planet, over the bodies of frantic persons . . . Their name they borrow from the moon because, as the moon is never in one shape two nights together but wanders up and down heaven like an antic, so these companions never tarry one day in a place.
--Thomas Dekker's Lanthorn and Candle Light, 1608
January 16, 2018