moonshine

Etymology
From, , ; equivalent to. Illegally distilled liquor is so named because its manufacture may be conducted without artificial light at night. The verb sense is a back-formation from.

Noun

 * 1)  The light of the moon.
 * 2) * 1718,, “O ruddier than the Cherry”, from Act 2 of ’s opera Acis and Galatea, page 47:
 * O Nymph more bright than moon-ſhine night, like Kidlings blithe and merry
 * 1)  High-proof alcohol (especially whiskey) that is often, but not always, produced illegally.
 * 2)  Nonsense.
 * 3)  A branch of pure mathematics relating the Monster group to an invariant of elliptic functions.
 * 4)  A spiced dish of eggs and fried onions.
 * 5)  A month.
 * 1)  High-proof alcohol (especially whiskey) that is often, but not always, produced illegally.
 * 2)  Nonsense.
 * 3)  A branch of pure mathematics relating the Monster group to an invariant of elliptic functions.
 * 4)  A spiced dish of eggs and fried onions.
 * 5)  A month.
 * 1)  Nonsense.
 * 2)  A branch of pure mathematics relating the Monster group to an invariant of elliptic functions.
 * 3)  A spiced dish of eggs and fried onions.
 * 4)  A month.
 * 1)  A branch of pure mathematics relating the Monster group to an invariant of elliptic functions.
 * 2)  A spiced dish of eggs and fried onions.
 * 3)  A month.
 * 1)  A spiced dish of eggs and fried onions.
 * 2)  A month.

Translations

 * Belarusian: самаго́н
 * Bulgarian: контрабанден алкохол
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 私酿酒,
 * Esperanto: brandaĉo
 * Estonian: samagonn, samakas, puskar, hansa, metsakohin, lepikuliisu,
 * Finnish:
 * French: alcool de contrebande
 * German: schwarzgebrannter Schnaps, ,
 * Irish: poitín, stuif glas, fuisce baile
 * Japanese: 密造酒
 * Latvian: kandža
 * Lithuanian: samanė
 * Maori: paekaka
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål: hjemmebrent, heimert, himkok , HB
 * Nynorsk: heimebrent, heimert
 * Polish:, , , , krzakówka
 * Portuguese: moonshine
 * Russian:
 * Spanish: alcohol ilegal
 * Swahili:
 * Swedish:
 * Ukrainian: самого́н
 * Vietnamese: rượu ngang

Verb

 * 1)  To make homemade (especially, illicit) alcohol, especially distilled spirits.
 * 2)  To make (an ingredient) into such a drink.
 * 1)  To make (an ingredient) into such a drink.
 * 1)  To make (an ingredient) into such a drink.

Noun

 * 1)   Appalachian home-made liquor