What's the difference between mooning and moony?

Mooning


Definition:

  • (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Moon

Example Sentences:

  • (1) A second operation, total adrenalectomy, resulted in an improvement of the clinical and laboratory findings such as hypokalemia, high blood pressure, muscle atrophy and moon face.
  • (2) The UN secretary general, Ban Ki-moon, a former South Korean foreign minister, said the resolution "sent an unequivocal message to [North Korea] that the international community will not tolerate its pursuit of nuclear weapons."
  • (3) Perhaps you'd like to know how she felt holding the Olympic flag alongside Ban Ki-moon at the 2012 opening ceremony .
  • (4) Nevertheless, moonlight does not seem to have any effect on the composition of adult mosquito population since the difference in the parous rate of females collected during full moon and during no moon was not significant (P greater than 0.05).
  • (5) They are traditionally consumed on the first full moon of the new year; in our family we always like to have them right after the new year countdown.
  • (6) The HLP submitted its report (pdf) to Ban Ki-moon, the UN secretary general, in May, proposing 12 goals.
  • (7) By October the Chronicle's editors had announced a new series of articles, aimed at providing "a full and detailed description of the moral, intellectual, material, and physical condition of the industrial poor throughout England", and Mayhew was to be the Metropolitan Correspondent, filing regular reports from areas of London that might as well have been on the moon for all the notice most people took of them.
  • (8) "These results," said Ban Ki-moon, the UN secretary-general, "represent a tremendous reduction in human suffering and are a clear validation of the approach embodied in the MDGs.
  • (9) On the eve of the latest suicide data for the UK, Madeleine Moon, chair of the all-party parliamentary group for suicide and self-harm prevention (APPG), said a third of local authorities in England had no suicide action plan.
  • (10) Recently, two US congressmen proposed a bill known as the Apollo Lunar Landing Legacy Act that would declare a national park on the surface of the moon to protect the Apollo landings.
  • (11) 1.49am BST Michael Aston writes: Gota feeling this is going to be a thrashing, a major and total beat down... After watching the Spurs humiliate the Heat and Oranje murder Spain...this has a horror show Full moon Friday the 13th nightmare for NY written all over it.....then again, triple OT would be fun too Triple OT?
  • (12) Daballen navigates the jeep between thorn bushes and over furrows, guided by a rising moon and his intimate knowledge of the terrain.
  • (13) She was often at Moon's side for the mass weddings.
  • (14) A statement by the spokesman for UN secretary-general Ban Ki-moon demanded that both sides "immediately translate these commitments into action on the ground".
  • (15) World leaders will assemble at the UN general assembly this month to hear Ban Ki-moon set out his vision for what should replace the millennium development goals (MDGs).
  • (16) Ending marginalisation and exclusion of LGBT people is a human rights priority – and a development imperative,” said Ban Ki-moon at the UN general assembly last September , despite the fact there is no mention of LGBT rights in the sustainable development goals (SDGs) announced at the conference.
  • (17) Speaking from a hotel in Cape Town, South Africa, where she is promoting her novel, she said: "I'm over the moon.
  • (18) The UN secretary general, Ban Ki-moon,has promised a separate UN investigation.
  • (19) Accusing Raquel Rolnik, the UN special rapporteur on housing, of having an agenda, Shapps said he had written to the UN secretary general, Ban Ki-moon, demanding an apology and an explanation of Rolnik's findings.
  • (20) W hat do you think happens to the rubbish when you throw it out into the street?” asks the Mighty Boosh ’s great realist Howard Moon.

Moony


Definition:

  • (a.) Of or pertaining to the moon.
  • (a.) Furnished with a moon; bearing a crescent.
  • (a.) Silly; weakly sentimental.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Experience: I escaped from the Moonies Read more I don’t feel sorry for her.
  • (2) Pakistan Name: Moonis Elahi Offshore company: Olive Grove Assets Ltd Details: Elahi is a politician from a prominent Punjab dynasty.
  • (3) I have never regretted my time in the Moonies, but I’m relieved I found the courage to escape.
  • (4) Man on the Wire opens with cosmic chanting, like a prayer meeting between the Moonies and the MC5 on Mars.
  • (5) They were the Moonies, named after their Korean founder Sun Myung Moon , and they were operating from a farmhouse just outside Reading.
  • (6) After a spell in the Royal Marines, and a dalliance with the Moonies in Thailand, Gough spent nearly 20 years in his native Eastleigh, Hampshire.
  • (7) It's like being the one non-believer in a convention of Moonies.
  • (8) In Pakistan, Moonis Elahi, a politician from a prominent Punjab dynasty who was acquitted in a Pakistan court in 2011 of receiving payments in a corruption scandal, said he did not own offshore company Olive Grove Assets, listed to his name at the family residence in Lahore.
  • (9) A crucial test of a new religion is whether it transfers to the next generation after its founder's demise, and with the death of the Rev Sun Myung Moon, at 92 after suffering from pneumonia, the prospects for his Unification church – or "Moonies" – look poor.
  • (10) Still, it all felt like an enormous risk: I believed everything the Moonies told me, particularly the threat in the movement’s teachings that if you left, you exposed yourself to losing control of your life.
  • (11) Lords and their lobbyists • Lord Moonie sponsored a pass for Robin Ashby, the director general of the UK Defence Forum, who was once stripped of his parliamentary pass after press interest.
  • (12) But the Reverend Sun Myung Moon, founder of the Unification Church – whose followers became known as "Moonies" – managed to shed the mantle of suspicion and ridicule to become a friend of political and religious leaders before his death in South Korea on Sunday, aged 92.
  • (13) Robin Ashby, a defence lobbyist who was stripped of his parliamentary pass for lobbying, has been given a pass by the former Labour minister, Lord Moonie.
  • (14) A 2012 investigation into Jang’s activities by Christianity Today claimed that documentary evidence indicated he was once “involved in” the Unification Church of the Rev Sun Myung Moon – whose followers became known as “Moonies” in the 1970s and 80s – and taught at one of its schools.
  • (15) In the increasing political row which erupted that year about the administration's support for the contras in Nicaragua, Kirkpatrick agreed to head a campaign organised by the Unification Church (the Moonies) to raise money for the anti-Sandinista rebels.
  • (16) Much of my time was spent travelling between Moonie centres along the east coast, preaching on the street corners of nearby towns and helping to establish new communities.
  • (17) She described how a female Trump supporter turned around, pulled down her trousers and “did a fully on moony”.
  • (18) The Moonies, the Manson Family, Jonestown, and the Scientologists?

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