moon over
phrasal verb
mooned over; mooning over; moons over
: to spend too much time thinking about or looking at (someone or something that one admires or wants very much)
All the girls in the class are mooning over the handsome new teacher.
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Initially outraged to see her sister’s killer in the bunker, Asia has since acknowledged—after days of secretly mooning over videos of Max on Ane’s old cellphone—that she’s been lying to herself for years.
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Judy Berman, Time, 19 Sep. 2025
Brecher captured his deep space vista under the light of a first quarter moon over several nights between July 23-30 earlier this year from his home in Guelph, Canada, using a Sky-Watcher Esprit 70 EDX refractor fitted with a QHY367C Pro astronomy camera.
—Anthony Wood, Space.com, 6 Sep. 2025
The red moon over the water and the mirror shining in her closet and the laptop burning her stomach flesh and the model turning miserably before her eyes.
—Mona Awad, New Yorker, 20 July 2025
Guthrie, her fiancé, took to casually goading Loeb about how Twysden now spurned him, while Loeb accepted the insults with a stoic passivity, mooning over Twysden, the others felt, like a lovesick puppy.
—Tony Perrottet, Smithsonian Magazine, 30 June 2025
Of course, the most head-turning part of her look was her matching headpiece, which gave the appearance of a crescent moon over her head.
—Kelsie Gibson, People.com, 6 May 2025
Neither reviewers nor audiences are exactly mooning over the film, which boasts a solid but not spectacular 78 percent critics’ score on Rotten Tomatoes.
—Pamela McClintock, The Hollywood Reporter, 8 Mar. 2025
More than a hundred million people in the United States had watched the Super Bowl the season before last, back when Swift was still mooning over slim British men.
—Louisa Thomas, The New Yorker, 8 Sep. 2024
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Judy Berman, Time, 19 Sep. 2025
Brecher captured his deep space vista under the light of a first quarter moon over several nights between July 23-30 earlier this year from his home in Guelph, Canada, using a Sky-Watcher Esprit 70 EDX refractor fitted with a QHY367C Pro astronomy camera.
—Anthony Wood, Space.com, 6 Sep. 2025
The red moon over the water and the mirror shining in her closet and the laptop burning her stomach flesh and the model turning miserably before her eyes.
—Mona Awad, New Yorker, 20 July 2025
Guthrie, her fiancé, took to casually goading Loeb about how Twysden now spurned him, while Loeb accepted the insults with a stoic passivity, mooning over Twysden, the others felt, like a lovesick puppy.
—Tony Perrottet, Smithsonian Magazine, 30 June 2025
Of course, the most head-turning part of her look was her matching headpiece, which gave the appearance of a crescent moon over her head.
—Kelsie Gibson, People.com, 6 May 2025
Neither reviewers nor audiences are exactly mooning over the film, which boasts a solid but not spectacular 78 percent critics’ score on Rotten Tomatoes.
—Pamela McClintock, The Hollywood Reporter, 8 Mar. 2025
More than a hundred million people in the United States had watched the Super Bowl the season before last, back when Swift was still mooning over slim British men.
—Louisa Thomas, The New Yorker, 8 Sep. 2024
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“Moon over.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/moon%20over. Accessed 24 Oct. 2025.
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