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Moon around   /mun ərˈaʊnd/   Listen
Moon around

verb
1.
Be idle in a listless or dreamy way.  Synonyms: moon, moon on.
2.
Be apathetic, gloomy, or dazed.  Synonyms: moon about, mope.






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"Moon around" Quotes from Famous Books



... given no indication of any serious intentions. Now that she had come to know him better, he seemed more like an overgrown boy with a healthy appetite for play. There was no cause for alarm. If he had been the kind to moon around in dark corners, wanting to sit alone with her in long interminable silences—but on the contrary he always wanted to go somewhere. She had met several of his friends and they were always going somewhere, ...
— Stubble • George Looms

... the moon. In most languages the word month is very nearly like moon, as you see it is in ours. From new moon around to new moon again is about twenty-nine days, which is nearly the length of a month. The exact time between two new moons is a very puzzling problem. It always involves a troublesome fraction of a day, and is, in fact, never twice alike. So it was found convenient to divide ...
— Harper's Young People, February 10, 1880 - An Illustrated Weekly • Various

... invented the nail-cutting machine which made it possible to cut nails rapidly from wrought iron, whereas they had formerly been hammered out by hand. Thomas H. Barlow invented the Planetarium, an instrument by which the movements of the earth and moon around ...
— The story of Kentucky • Rice S. Eubank



Words linked to "Moon around" :   mope, idle, moon about, slug, laze, stagnate, be



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