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单词 moonite
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mooniten.

Brit. /ˈmuːnʌɪt/, U.S. /ˈmuˌnaɪt/
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: moon n.1, -ite suffix1.
Etymology: < moon n.1 + -ite suffix1.
Now rare.
An imagined inhabitant of the moon.
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1762 L. Sterne Life Tristram Shandy V. xxxiii. 120 Could the man in the moon be told, that a man in the earth had wrote a chapter... ‘O thou eternal maker of all beings!’—he would cry... What have we Moonites done?
1825 R. Ayton Ess. & Sketches Char. 210 We loyal earthites may be pleased to think so; but what may the moonites..say to such a notion?
1877 Harper's Mag. Oct. 759/2 He is so clever that the stupid Moonites took him for a stupid Moonite.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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