Moonshine

Noun

 * 1) lit.  The light of the moon; moonlight.
 * 2) Illegally distilled liquor, so named because much of the manufacturing process often is conducted without artificial light at night when the moon is shining.
 * They watered down the moonshine.
 * 1)  nonsense
 * He was talking moonshine.
 * 1)  A branch of pure mathematics relating the monster group to an invariant of elliptic functions; see.

Synonyms

 * moon, moonlight
 * bootleg, corn liquor, hooch, mountain dew, white lightning

Derived terms

 * moonshiney, moonshiny

Adjectives for Moonshine
white; sweet; silvery.

Thesaurus
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

Translations

 * Finnish:
 * German:
 * Norwegian: måneskinn


 * Russian: лунный свет (lúnnyj sv'et) ; лунное сияние
 * Telugu: వెన్నెల (vennela)


 * Finnish: pontikka, korpikuusen kyynel
 * German: schwarzgebrannter Schnaps
 * Norwegian: hjemmebrent


 * Polish: bimber,
 * Russian: