Moonie

[ moo-nee ]
/ ˈmu ni /

noun

a member or follower of the Unification Church.

Origin of Moonie

1970–75; Sun Myung Moon + -ie, with pun on moony

Example sentences from the Web for moonie

British Dictionary definitions for moonie

Moonie
/ (ˈmuːnɪ) /

noun informal

a member of the Unification Church
the Moonies (plural) the Unification Church

Word Origin for Moonie

C20: named after the founder Sun Myung Moon (1920–2012), S Korean industrialist