The usage of "moon" to refer to the act reflected its use as a metaphor for the buttocks since 1743. It was popularised from American student slang in the 1960s.
Immediatly after the tribulacions off thoſe dayes / ſhall the ſun be derkeneth: and themone ſhall not geve her light / and the ſtarrꝭ ſhall fall from heven / and the powers of hevẽ ſhall move
"I suppose I may have leave to do that!" Yes, she could do that, he said, but there was no road to that place; it lay east of the sun and west of themoon, and she could never find her way there.
The stargazer observed themoons of Jupiter for over a year.
That's nomoon, you idiot... it's a space station!
2021 March 30, Anton Troianovski, “Hunting Ghost Particles Beneath the World’s Deepest Lake”, inThe New York Times[1], archived fromthe original on30 March 2021:
The field’s practitioners believe that as they learn to read the universe using neutrinos, they could make new, unexpected discoveries — much as the lensmakers who first developed the telescope could not have imagined that Galileo would later use it to discover themoons of Jupiter.
They stayed with their aunt and uncle for manymoons.
1603, William Shakespeare,Othello:
For since these arms of mine had seven years' pith, Till now some ninemoons wasted, they have used Their dearest action in the tented field…
1737, John Brickell,The natural history of North-Carolina, pages308–309:
They number their age byMoons or Winters, and say a Woman or a Man is so manyMoons old, and so they do with all memorable Actions in life, accounting it to be so manyMoons or Winters since such or such a thing happened.
1822, Thomas Love Peacock,Maid Marian, page238:
Manymoons had waxed and waned when on the afternoon of a lovely summer day a lusty broad-boned knight was riding through the forest of Sherwood.
Used attributively in a variety of collocations and compounds to indicate something foreign or difficult to understand:moon language,moonspeak,moon runes,moon logic, etc.
Bradly stood bewitched,mooning at the moon. Betimes he bent in a grotesque posture and looked at it between his legs, which was to rid his mind of preconceived colour values by seeing them upside down.
You've beenmooning after her forever; why not just ask her out?
2017 January 12, Jesse Hassenger, “A literal monster truck is far from the stupidest thing about Monster Trucks”, inThe Onion AV Club[2]:
On some level, the filmmakers behind Monster Trucks must have recognized the ill fit of Till playing a teenager, because they cast Jane Levy, a 27-year-old who can pass for younger but not a decade younger, as Meredith, a nerdy classmate of Tripp’s whomoons over him as she insists on making an appointment to tutor him in biology.
"No, you're right." Udo shook this newest distraction out of her head. She knew it would come creeping back in through the ears in due time, just as she knew the best way to dispel it was to finish the job and link up with the rest of the Site. In any event, there was something in what Brenda had said that didn't make sense... "But why would he bemooning over her, if she's still awake?"
"Because he's with V—"
"Veiksaar!" Udo fairly shouted, slapping her forehead. "Oh, shit. This is going to take a lot of getting used to."
It is impractical if a currencymoons and plummets often.
2019, Mark Grabowski,Cryptocurrencies: A Primer on Digital Money[4], Routledge,→ISBN:
I've followed several of the most popular crypto pundits on Twitter and discovered they constantly brag about their one big Hail Mary pick thatmooned but neglect to mention – or delete – their numerous fumbles.
“It was like nothing I ever saw. Just complete murder and carnage.” “Everything seemed calm at first but then this guy in a suit shows up talking about investment opportunities. Next thing you know these people over here started chanting, "Hoddle, Hoddle," and their NFTs startedmooning. And then, these guys over here started saying those guys right there right-clicked 'em and-and called for a pump-and-dump, which made these guys beat the living hell out of anyone who said it was just FOMO and died screaming that is was the flippening. Luckily I came out of it ok. I got this little miniature donkey with a lit-up sombrero.” “Did you see where the guy in the suit went afterwards?” “Nah, he just waltzed right away like nothin' happened.” “Chief, you better come take a look at this. We got a small turtle with wings, could be a great investment opportunity.” “Excuse me, gentlemen.”
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