单词 | moonite |
释义 | mooniten. Now rare. An imagined inhabitant of the moon. ΚΠ 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). < n.1762 |
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