The word "moonshine" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to refer to the illicit production and distribution of alcohol, as well as to describe something that is bright, shiny, and/or sparkling. For example, you could say: "The stars twinkled in the night sky, and the moonshine lit up the meadow."
One of the revolving door of ministers, William Archibald, accused Griffin of "grand theorising, moonshine and dreaming", and eventually Griffin quit in despair.
And we aren't singing about moonshine, we're proud to be British and we have a song called Made in England that's all about fish and chips and pints".
Would we find him bearded and crying, swigging moonshine and wearing a punched-through top hat with a mouse in it?
Sitting on a rough bench in his moonshine bar in a banana grove, a tipsy Bernard Okumo says his wife used her windfall to bail him out of jail, where he was facing a murder charge.
Jim Cauley, a Democratic political consultant from Pikeville, says that Appalachians used to fear "revenuers coming for their moonshine.
But a reformed electoral system and new, younger leaders (needed on the right as well as the left) might just lure some Italians away from Mr Grillo's moonshine.
The moonshine being imbibed, the catalogue of African beers, African-branded cigarettes, the hookers even watching the screen not the customers.
He describes how he became a mathematician, and talks about the challenge of interesting his nine-year-old son in the beauties of mathematics".Finding Moonshine" is full of insight into the nature of symmetry and the people who study it.
They didn't see me with the naked eye .Now, says the federal attorney for western Virginia, the moonshine industry is not content with illegal liquor; it is branching into other criminal enterprises, including drugs.
A mixture of oleic and erucic acids (in effect, olive and rapeseed oil) should, he reasoned, inhibit the effects of the deadly acids, soaking them up before they hurt the nervous system.Many medical researchers thought his theory moonshine.
And so on.There is an obvious culprit: booze, especially the Russian taste for strong spirits, sometimes not fit for human consumption and often moonshine.
