Looks like they are looking for the British use of the term:moony

moony, moonie

Wanted: Printed evidence before 1990.

'Doing a moony' is a more recent synonym for 'mooning' (1963) or exposing one's buttocks. Is there any evidence for the term before 1990?

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Entry from OED Online
moony, n. DRAFT ENTRY Dec. 2002
Chiefly Brit. colloq.

Forms: 19- moonie, moony. [< MOON n.1 + -Y6.]

An act of exposing one's buttocks; = MOON n.1 14. Esp. in to do a moony.

[1989 Memphis Tennessee Business Jrnl. (Nexis) 13 Mar. I. 15 [Rick] Jurczyk and Steven Dunlop..created Moonies.., a plastic doll that sticks to a car window and drops its trousers on command.] 1990 A. BEEVOR Inside Brit. Army xviii. 219 A sapper captain..was still angry that one of his best NCOs ‘was busted for doing a Moonie in front of a barmaid’ and promptly left the Army. 1994 Ticket Aug. 9/2 The majorettes, now in short, black micro-frocks which slip-up and prompt the blonde one to flash the odd moony. 2000 Evening Chron. (Newcastle) (Nexis) 27 Nov. (Entertainer Extra) 25 He once did a moony on stage in Italy unaware that the Pope was watching.

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The use of the term moonie n. relating to Sun Myung Moon (b. 1920 as Young Myung Moon) the founder of the Unification church dates back to 1974.

The use of the word Mooning n. dates back to 1963:
1963 Look 27 Aug. 18 A game called mooning... This pastime originated about two years ago in southern California. 1974 Guardian 22 Mar. 17/8 Streaking..seems to be the mainly male equivalent of the mainly female practice that cropped up in campuses across the United States in the late fifties and early sixties. This was known as ‘mooning’... Mooning consisted..of exposing the bottom in the general direction of whoever the mooner wanted to impress, protest to, or affront.

Last edited by jmh; 02/26/06 02:29 PM.