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How to pronounce “moonshine”
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Pronunciation guide for moonshine
- Learning goal
- Practice the English pronunciation of moonshine with real speech in context.
- Available examples
- 5 YouTube examples
- Real speech example
- Holly Morris: Why stay in Chernobyl? Because it's home. 8 minutes, 52 seconds
their only company a bit of homemade moonshine vodka.
- Definition summary
- (literally) The light of the moon.
Example 1 of 5
How to pronounce moonshine
Holly Morris: Why stay in Chernobyl? Because it's home. 8 minutes, 52 seconds

their only company a bit of homemade moonshine vodka.
Example Sentences
A Deep Dive Into “moonshine”
Meaning
- [Noun]
- (literally) The light of the moon.
- (informal) High-proof alcohol (especially whiskey) that is often, but not always, produced illegally.
- (England, dialectal, archaic) smuggled spirits, often with a specific sense; (Kent, Sussex) white brandy; (Yorkshire) gin.
- (colloquial, uncountable) Nonsense.
- (mathematics, uncountable) A branch of pure mathematics relating the Monster group to an invariant of elliptic functions.
- (US, cooking) A spiced dish of eggs and fried onions.
- (obsolete) A month.
- [Verb]
- (intransitive) To make homemade (especially, illicit) alcohol, especially distilled spirits.
- (transitive) To make (an ingredient) into such a drink.
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