Moony, subs. (common).—A noodle. For synonyms see Buffle and
Cabbage-head.
Adj. (common).—1. Silly. Also moonish.
1600. Shakspeare, As You Like It, iii. 2. 430. Being but a moonish
youth.
1861. G. Meredith, Evan Harrington, xxv. p. 293 (1885). Rose gave
him no time for reflection, or the moony imagining of their
raptures lovers love to dwell upon.
1876. George Eliot, Daniel Deronda, xxii. Violent and capricious,
or moony and insipid.
1890. G. Allen, The Tents of Shem, xxx. You’ve seemed preoccupied
and absorbed and moony and distracted.
1892. Milliken, ’Arry Ballads, p. 16. Mooney young women in grey.