moon
noun
[ muːn ]
• the natural satellite of the earth, visible (chiefly at night) by reflected light from the sun.
• "there was no moon, but a sky sparkling with brilliant stars"
moon
verb
• behave or move in a listless and aimless manner.
• "I don't want her mooning about in the morning"
Similar:
waste time,
fiddle,
loaf,
idle,
mope,
drift,
stooge around,
mooch,
lollygag,
bat,
• expose one's buttocks to someone in order to insult or amuse them.
• "the crew dropped their trousers and mooned at them"
Origin:
Old English mōna, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch maan and German Mond, also to month, from an Indo-European root shared by Latin mensis and Greek mēn ‘month’, and also Latin metiri ‘to measure’ (the moon being used to measure time).
