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Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

moonlighter

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.31 in modern English

Syllables
moon-lighter
IPA
17
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
2
Syllables
10
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A person who moonlights, working a second job on the side.

noun

One who serenades by moonlight.

American usage

noun

A moonshiner, who makes illicit alcohol.

noun

One of a gang who used violence, especially at night, to promote agrarianism in Ireland during the Land War of the late 19th century.

noun

A southern Australian marine fish, Tilodon sexfasciatum.

Australian usage

Etymology

From moonlight + -er.

Usage

Inflected Forms

moonlighters (plural)

Questions

What does moonlighter mean?
A person who moonlights, working a second job on the side.
Where does moonlighter come from?
From moonlight + -er.

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