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moonman
noun 5
Collocations
5ADJ.
dim, dim, far, watched
VERB + MOONMAN
howls
MOONMAN + NOUN
scowls
PREP.
across, toward
ADV.
only
Definitions
noun
1
Alternative letter-case form of moonman.
2
An MTV Video Music Award.
3
An unofficial parody of the McDonald's mascot Mac Tonight, who is depicted as a white supremacist.
noun
1
Synonym of man in the moon (“face perceived in the moon, or the character imagined for it”).
Towser lifts his nose and howls / Toward the moonman, far and dim; / But the moonman only scowls, / For no dog can frighten him.
I sat within a cedar grove alone / And watched the moonman walk across the hill
2
Synonym of Lunarian (“inhabitant of the Moon”).
In this manner did I discourse with the Moonmen while taking my repast; after which they told me, if I had no objection, that they intended taking me to Moontown, to introduce me to their king […]
On the floor the Moonman's body shivered again.
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Towser lifts his nose and howls / Toward the moonman, far and dim; / But the moonman only scowls, / For no dog can frighten him.
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I sat within a cedar grove alone / And watched the moonman walk across the hill
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In this manner did I discourse with the Moonmen while taking my repast; after which they told me, if I had no objection, that they intended taking me to Moontown, to introduce me to their king […]
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