moonshiny

moonshine +‎ -y

moonshiny (comparative more moonshiny, superlative most moonshiny)

1. (obsolete) Moonlit; lit by moonlight.
   • 1759, Laurence Sterne, The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman, Volume II, Chapter 17,

     When Trim, as his custom was, after he had put my uncle Toby to bed, going down one moon-shiny night to see that every thing was right at his fortifications—in the lane separated from the bowling-green with flowering shrubs and holly—he espied his Bridget.

   • 1821, James Fenimore Cooper, The Spy, Chapter 35,

     “Oh, the falls!—they are a thing to be looked at on a moonshiny night, by your Aunt Sarah and that gay old bachelor, Colonel Singleton; but a fellow like myself never shows surprise, unless it may be at such a touch as this.”

2. (dated, colloquial) Crazy; nonsensical; ludicrous.
   • 1853, Broomhill: Or, The County Beauties (page 7)

     Canvassing it was like fishing for salmon: you might throw out anything in the shape of a fly, the most gaudy, the most moonshiny, the most unlife-like and unrealizable thing that could be fastened upon a hook […]

• (moonlit): moonlight (attributive)