spoony
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Foolish people may have been called spoony because, like the bowl of a spoon, they are shallow and lack depth.
From The Guardian ● Aug. 19, 2019
You came here to show how hard you'd got the railroad fever--hey, you spoony?
From Ralph in the Switch Tower by Allen Chapman
The sight of my own little Bill's satchel gives me a turn, and makes me feel spoony to this day.
From Girlhood and Womanhood The Story of some Fortunes and Misfortunes by Sarah Tytler
If she be "spoony," that means that she is pretty.
From Dick Prescott's Second Year at West Point Finding the Glory of the Soldier's Life by H. Irving (Harrie Irving) Hancock
Do not make such a show of your devotion, man; don't be so spoony.
From Froth by Armando Palacio Vald?s
Well, of all the spooniest, unsociable, selfish people, you two are the worst.
From The Workingman's Paradise An Australian Labour Novel by John Maurice Miller
I arn't ashamed to say I sit and veep To think of Seven Year of keepin Sheep, The spooniest Beast in Nater, all to Sticks, And not a Votch to take for all their Ticks!
From The Poetical Works of Thomas Hood by Thomas Hood
As a member of the guard he wore a pair of immaculate white duck trousers, which held the "spooniest" crease imaginable.
From Dick Prescott's First Year at West Point by H. Irving (Harrie Irving) Hancock
Their white duck trousers were the spooniest as to spotlessness and crease.
From Dick Prescott's Second Year at West Point Finding the Glory of the Soldier's Life by H. Irving (Harrie Irving) Hancock
There was a catch, a trip, and Mr. Butler went to the ground, mussing the knees of his spooniest pair of white ducks.
From Dick Prescott's First Year at West Point by H. Irving (Harrie Irving) Hancock
