how to pronounce moonshine

/ˈmunˌʃaɪn/

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moonshine is pronounced in two syllables

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An example use of moonshine in a speech by a native speaker of american english:

“… who make illegal moonshine and that's …”

meaning of moonshine

Moonshine is a type of distilled liquor.

moonshine frequency in english - C2 level of CEFR

the word moonshine occurs in english on average 2 times per one million words; this frequency warrants it to be in the study list for C2 level of language mastery according to CEFR, the Common European Framework of Reference.

topics moonshine can be related to

it is hard to perfectly classify words into specific topics since each word can have many context of its use, but our machine-learning models believe that moonshine can be often used in the following areas:

1) education, science, and technology;