Mooning

2 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Moon \Moon\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Mooned}; p. pr. & vb. n.
     {Mooning}.]
     1. To expose to the rays of the moon.
        [1913 Webster]
  
              If they have it to be exceeding white indeed, they


              seethe it yet once more, after it hath been thus
              sunned and mooned.                    --Holland.
        [1913 Webster]
  
     2. To expose one's naked buttocks to (a person); -- a vulgar
        sign of contempt or disrespect, sometimes done as a prank.
        [PJC]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  62 Moby Thesaurus words for "mooning":
     Walter Mitty, absence of mind, absent, absentminded,
     absentmindedness, absorbed, absorption, abstracted, abstractedness,
     abstraction, bemused, bemusement, brown study, castle-building,
     daydream, daydreamer, daydreaming, daydreamy, depth of thought,
     dream, dreaming, dreamy, drowsing, ecstatic, elsewhere, engrossed,
     engrossment, fantasy, fantasying, faraway, fit of abstraction,
     half-awake, in a reverie, in the clouds, lost, lost in thought,
     meditative, moonraking, muse, museful, musefulness, musing,
     muted ecstasy, napping, nodding, oblivious, pensive, pipe dream,
     pipe-dreaming, preoccupation, preoccupied, rapt, reverie,
     somewhere else, stargazing, study, taken up, trance, transported,
     unconscious, woolgathering, wrapped in thought