Moonshine vs Gab - What's the difference?
moonshine | gab |
(literally) The light of the moon; moonlight.
Illegally distilled liquor, so named because much of the manufacturing process is often conducted without artificial light at night when the moon is shining.
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(colloquial) nonsense
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(mathematics) A branch of pure mathematics relating the monster group to an invariant of elliptic functions; see (monstrous moonshine).
(US) A spiced dish of eggs and fried onions.
(obsolete) A month.
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idle chatter
The mouth or gob.
One of the open-forked ends of rods controlling reversing in early steam engines.
(obsolete) To jest; to tell lies in jest; exaggerate; lie.
To talk or chatter a lot, usually on trivial subjects.
(obsolete) To speak or tell falsely.
As nouns the difference between moonshine and gab
is that moonshine is the light of the moon; moonlight while gab is idle chatter.As a verb gab is
to jest; to tell lies in jest; exaggerate; lie.moonshine
English
Noun
(en noun)- They watered down the moonshine .
- “Wish I'd been more polite to that girl,” the sheriff remarked regretfully. “ I ain't had a bite to eat since four o'clock this morning, and I'm hungry as a wolverine. … I know she'd have give me another drink of that old moonshine she has.”
- He was talking moonshine .
- "We forget what we have learned in the last 60 years. At university I once asked one of my lecturers why he was not talking to us about continental drift and I was told, sneeringly, that if I could I prove there was a force that could move continents, then he might think about it. The idea was moonshine , I was informed."
- Wherefore should I / Stand in the plague of custom and permit / The curiosity of nations to deprive me / For that I am some twelve or fourteen moonshines / Lag of a brother?