mooney
Example Sentences
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If I was running the concern, though, I would touch the mooney, maundering mess.
From A Black Adonis by Linn Boyd Porter
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 Thomas Chandler Haliburton
“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 George Manville Fenn
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
Well, we won't be mooney any more, anyhow," said Mrs. O'Neil; "the drillers came to-day with two freight cars of machinery, but Jack had them pay a week in advance.
From In a Mysterious Way by Anne Warner