mooner

noun — 3 senses

mooner

noun

Etymology From moon + -er.

1

One who abstractedly wanders or gazes about.

  • A "mooner," fond of staring into shop windows, or watching the labourers pulling up the pavement to inspect the gas-pipes, or listening stolidly to the dull "pech" of the paviour's rammer on the flags.1853, Charles Dickens, Household Words, volume 6, page 387:
2

Someone who moons (drops their pants and shows their bare buttocks in public).

  • Though not an exhibitionist mooner like Rousseau, Jacques offers us his belaboured rump as an image of a brutalised, not loveless but misloved, childhood .1992, W. D. Redfern, Feet First: Jules Vallès, page 93:
3

A lunatic.

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