Moonlight(動詞)の意味・語源

動詞としてのMoonlight

MarketWatchを見ていたらmoonlightが動詞として使われていたので、

英英辞書でどのような意味になっているか少し調べてみた。

訳は自信ありません。

My intelligent, talented retiree husband moonlights as a handyman. He charges an hour, but is not insured and doesn’t pay tax

‘When I try to point out that he is threatening my financial security as well as his own, he says I am paranoid and that he is just helping people.’

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ロングマン現代英英辞典

moonlight | ロングマン現代英英辞典でのmoonlightの意味 | LDOCE

moonlight意味、定義、moonlightとは何か: the light of the moon: もっとみる

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1 to have a second job in addition to your main job, especially without the knowledge of the government tax department 

2 British English to do paid work although you are getting money from the government because you do not officially have a job

訳：

　１：メインの仕事に加えて副業を持つこと、特に政府の税務機関に内緒で。

　２：英国英語、表向き仕事がないので政府からお金をもらっているのに、

　　　報酬のある仕事をすること。

Oxford Learner’s Dictionaries

moonlight_2 verb - Definition, pictures, pronunciation and usage notes | Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary at OxfordLearnersDictionaries.com

Definition of moonlight_2 verb in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and m...

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to have a second job that you do secretly, without telling your main employer

訳：メインの雇用主に知らせずに副業を持つこと。

Cambridge Dictionary

moonlight

1. the pale light of the moon: 2. to work at an extra job, especially without…

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to work at an extra job, especially without telling your main employer

訳：メインの雇用主に知らせずに副業を行うこと。

Online Etymology Dictionary(語源)

moonlight | Etymology, origin and meaning of moonlight by etymonline

MOONLIGHT Meaning: "hold a second job, especially at night," 1957 (implied in the verbal noun moonlighting), from… See definitions of moonlight.

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“hold a second job, especially at night,” 1957 (implied in the verbal noun moonlighting), from moonlighter “one who takes a second job after hours” (1954), from the notion of working by the light of the moon; see moonlight (n.). Earlier the verb had been used to mean “commit crimes at night” (1882), from moonlighter in reference to members of organized bands that carried on agrarian outrages in Ireland. And compare moonshine. Moonlighter in American English meant “one of a party who go about serenading on moonlit nights” (by 1897).

 

moonlight (n.)

“light of the moon,” c. 1300, from moon (n.) + light (n.). Similar formation in Dutch maanlicht, German Mondlicht.

語源は単純に名詞の”moon” + “light”で、

基本的には現代と同じく”副業をすること”の意味で使われているが、

19世紀には「夜中に犯罪を犯すこと」の意味で使われていたこともあるようだ。

似たような言葉に”moonshine”があり、密造酒業者を意味していて

19世紀初頭には”moonlight”も同じ意味で使われることがあったようなので、

ロングマン現代英英辞典の2番目の意味なんかはこの影響を受けていそうである。