mooney

Example Sentences

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Here, too, the bride's trustee; an oilcake-fed style of business-gentleman with mooney spectacles, and an object of much interest.

From Our Mutual Friend by Dickens, Charles

If I was running the concern, though, I would touch the mooney, maundering mess.

From A Black Adonis by Porter, Linn Boyd

Rabbits be safe 'nough from me now,' 'e says, an' drops his daffs all unknowin' like an' goes off at a mooney stride.

From Punch, or The London Charivari, Vol. 150, April 19, 1916 by Various

And if you see a he one, you see a mooney sort of man, either very sad, or so wild-looking you think he is half-mad; he eats and sleeps on earth, and that's all.

From Nature and Human Nature by Haliburton, Thomas Chandler

“Ay, and my tools, and a bit o’ mooney I’d saved, and all my stoof.

From Dick o' the Fens A Tale of the Great East Swamp by Fenn, George Manville