Sunshine vs. Moonshine

The direct rays, light or warmth of the sun.

Example: ‘We were warmed by the bright sunshine.’;

A location on which the sun's rays fall.

Example: ‘We moved out of the shade and into the sunshine.’;

Geniality or cheerfulness.

Example: ‘I enjoyed the sunshine of her smile.’;

A source of cheerfulness or joy.

The effect which the sun has when it lights and warms some place.

(UK) Friendly form of address often reserved for juniors.

Example: ‘Alright sunshine, safe to cross now.’;

(UK) Ironic form of address used to an inferior or troublemaker.

Example: ‘OK, sunshine, listen up and listen good. There's five vandalised telephone boxes out there and I know you're responsible.’;

(humorous) Used to address someone who has just woken up and/or is very sleepy.

Example: ‘Good morning, sunshine!’;

Open to and permitting public access, especially with regard to activities that were previously closed-door or back-room meetings.

Example: ‘Because of the sunshine law, we could go to the planning meeting.’;

The light of the sun, or the place where it shines; the direct rays of the sun, the place where they fall, or the warmth and light which they give.

Example: ‘But all sunshine, as when his beams at noonCulminate from the equator.’;

Anything which has a warming and cheering influence like that of the rays of the sun; warmth; illumination; brightness.

Example: ‘That man that sits within a monarch's heart,And ripens in the sunshine of his favor.’;

Sunshiny; bright.

the rays of the sun;

Example: ‘the shingles were weathered by the sun and wind’;

moderate weather; suitable for outdoor activities

(literally) The light of the moon; moonlight.

(informal) High-proof alcohol (especially whiskey) that is often, but not always, produced illegally.

Example: ‘They watered down the moonshine.’;

(colloquial) Nonsense.

Example: ‘He was talking moonshine.’;

(mathematics) A branch of pure mathematics relating the Monster group to an invariant of elliptic functions.

(US) A spiced dish of eggs and fried onions.

(obsolete) A month.

The light of the moon.

Hence, show without substance or reality.

A month.

A preparation of eggs for food.

Liquor smuggled or illicitly distilled, especially liquor distilled illegally in rural parts of the southern U. S.

Moonlight.

Empty; trivial; idle.

Designating, or pertaining to, illicit liquor; as, moonshine whisky.

the light of the moon;

Example: ‘moonlight is the smuggler's enemy’; ‘the moon was bright enough to read by’;

whiskey illegally distilled from a corn mash

distill (alcohol) illegally; produce moonshine

Moonshine is high-proof liquor that was and continues to be produced illicitly, without government authorization. The name was derived from a tradition of creating the alcohol during the nighttime, as to avoid detection.