moonshine

moonshine
    n 1: the light of the Moon; "moonlight is the smuggler's enemy";
         "the Moon was bright enough to read by" [syn: {moonlight},
         {moonshine}, {Moon}]
    2: whiskey illegally distilled from a corn mash [syn:
       {moonshine}, {bootleg}, {corn liquor}]
    v 1: distill (alcohol) illegally; produce moonshine
    

Moonshine \Moon"shine`\, n.
   1. The light of the moon.
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   2. Hence, show without substance or reality.
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   3. A month. [R.] --Shak.
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   4. A preparation of eggs for food. [Obs.]
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   5. Liquor smuggled or illicitly distilled, especially liquor
      distilled illegally in rural parts of the southern U. S.
      [Dial. Eng., & Colloq. or Slang, U. S.]
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Moonshine \Moon"shine`\, a.
   Moonlight. [R.] --Clarendon.
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   2. Empty; trivial; idle.
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   3. Designating, or pertaining to, illicit liquor; as,
      moonshine whisky. [Dial. Eng., & Colloq. or Slang, U. S.]
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101 Moby Thesaurus words for "moonshine":
      BS, argument, argument by analogy, argumentum ad baculum,
      argumentum ad captandum, argumentum ad hominem, bad case,
      balderdash, balls, baloney, bathtub gin, begging the question,
      bilge, black-market, black-marketeer, blague, blah, blah-blah,
      blather, blatherskite, blether, blockade, bootleg, bootleg liquor,
      bop, bosh, brew, bull, bullshit, bunk, bunkum, circular argument,
      claptrap, con, crap, crowd-pleasing argument, distill, drivel,
      empty words, eyewash, fallacy, fence, flam, flapdoodle, flimflam,
      formal fallacy, gammon, garbage, gas, guff, gup, hogwash, hoke,
      hokum, home brew, hooch, hooey, hot air, humbug, humbuggery,
      hysteron proteron, insincere argument, jiggery-pokery, jive, line,
      logical fallacy, malarkey, material fallacy, mere rhetoric,
      moonbeam, moonglow, moonlight, mountain dew, non sequitur,
      paralogism, petitio principii, philosophism, piffle, poppycock,
      pseudosyllogism, push, rot, rubbish, scat, shine, shit, shove,
      smoke, solecism, sophism, sophistry, stuff and nonsense,
      taradiddle, tommyrot, tripe, twaddle, verbal fallacy, weak point,
      white lightning, white mule, wind