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单词 moonshine in the water
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moonshine in the water
a. Appearance without substance; something unsubstantial or unreal; (now) esp. foolish or fanciful talk, ideas, plans, etc. Originally †moonshine in the water.
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the mind > mental capacity > intelligibility > absence of meaning > nonsense, rubbish > [noun]
magged talea1387
moonshine1468
trumperyc1485
foolishness1531
trash1542
baggage1545
flim-flam1570
gear1570
rubbisha1576
fiddle-faddle1577
stuff1579
fible-fable1581
balductum1593
pill1608
nonsense1612
skimble-skamble1619
porridge1642
mataeology1656
fiddle-come-faddle1663
apple sauce1672
balderdash1674
flummery1749
slang1762
all my eye1763
diddle-daddle1778
(all) my eye (and) Betty Martin1781
twaddle1782
blancmange1790
fudge1791
twiddle-twaddle1798
bothering1803
fee-faw-fum1811
slip-slop1811
nash-gab1816
flitter-tripe1822
effutiation1823
bladderdash1826
ráiméis1828
fiddlededee1843
pickles1846
rot1846
kelter1847
bosh1850
flummadiddle1850
poppycock1852
Barnum1856
fribble-frabble1859
kibosh1860
skittle1864
cod1866
Collyweston1867
punk1869
slush1869
stupidness1873
bilge-water1878
flapdoodle1878
tommyrot1880
ruck1882
piffle1884
flamdoodle1888
razzmatazz1888
balls1889
pop1890
narrischkeit1892
tosh1892
footle1894
tripe1895
crap1898
bunk1900
junk1906
quatsch1907
bilge1908
B.S.1912
bellywash1913
jazz1913
wash1913
bullshit?1915
kid-stakes1916
hokum1917
bollock1919
bullsh1919
bushwa1920
noise1920
bish-bosh1922
malarkey1923
posh1923
hooey1924
shit1924
heifer dust1927
madam1927
baloney1928
horse feathers1928
phonus-bolonus1929
rhubarb1929
spinach1929
toffeea1930
tomtit1930
hockey1931
phoney baloney1933
moody1934
cockalorum1936
cock1937
mess1937
waffle1937
berley1941
bull dust1943
crud1943
globaloney1943
hubba-hubba1944
pish1944
phooey1946
asswipe1947
chickenshit1947
slag1948
batshit1950
goop1950
slop1952
cack1954
doo-doo1954
cobbler1955
horse shit1955
nyamps1955
pony1956
horse manure1957
waffling1958
bird shit1959
codswallop1959
how's your father1959
dog shit1963
cods1965
shmegegge1968
pucky1970
taradiddle1970
mouthwash1971
wank1974
gobshite1977
mince1985
toss1990
arse1993
the world > existence and causation > existence > substantiality or concreteness > unsubstantiality or abstractness > [noun] > unsubstantiality or lack of substance > something lacking substance > mere appearance or image of something
shadow?c1225
shade1297
phantomc1384
moonshine1468
fume1531
show1547
eggs in moonshine?1558
smoke1559
sign1597
ghost1613
umbra1635
parhelion1636
bogle1793
simulacrum1805
phantasmagoria1821
spectre1849
1468 in Paston Lett. & Papers (2004) II. 389 Syr Thomas Howys wer..made byleve and put in hope of the moone shone in the water and I wot nat what.
1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 865/1 For moone shyne in the water pour vne chose de riens.
1598 W. Shakespeare Love's Labour's Lost v. ii. 207 Thou now requests but Mooneshine in the water. View more context for this quotation
1617 F. Moryson Itinerary iii. 6 Their continuall brawlings about Moone shine in the water.
1624 W. Bedell Copies Certaine Lett. ii. 49 Our dissentions are about Moone-shine.
1694 R. Franck Northern Mem. 28 Their..delectable Morsels will melt into Moonshines.
1781 Ld. McCartney Let. 25 Sept. in Private Corr. (1950 ) 1 Till that is settled the Treaty is mere moonshine.
1792 H. H. Brackenridge Mod. Chivalry I. ii. ii. 58 There can be no honour here; for it has become a mere matter of moon-shine to be a member.
1818 W. Scott Heart of Mid-Lothian iv, in Tales of my Landlord 2nd Ser. II. 96 Thae duds were a' o' the colour o' moonshine in the water, I'm thinking, Madge.
1841 B. Hall Patchwork II. viii. 155 I found the whole affair..a matter of moonshine.
1887 Spectator 3 Sept. 1173 As for all this talk about Federalism, it is moonshine. It means nothing practical at all.
1915 W. S. Maugham Of Human Bondage liii. 272 Telling you that philosophy was all moonshine.
1988 P. Pullman Shadow in North xix. 230 Whatever I said the other day..it was moonshine.
extracted from moonshinen.adj.
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