Definition of "mooner"

A "mooner," fond of staring into shop windows, or watching the labourers pulling up the pavement to inspect the gas-pipes, or listening stolidly to the dull "pech" of the paviour's rammer on the flags.

1853, Charles Dickens, Household Words, volume 6, page 387

Though not an exhibitionist mooner like Rousseau, Jacques offers us his belaboured rump as an image of a brutalised, not loveless but misloved, childhood .

1992, W. D. Redfern, Feet First: Jules Vallès, page 93