spoony

Example Sentences

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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

"He is awful spoony on her," said Bear in a disgusted tone.

From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 15, No. 86, February, 1875 by Various

Made us die with a story she told us of a fellow she was spoony on.

From Mike Fletcher A Novel by Moore, George (George Augustus)

Dibdin was off the boards altogether, and favour was divided between the London popular comic song and the sentimental—no longer with any flavour of salt about it, but the sentimental spoony and sickly.

From The English in the West Indies or, The Bow of Ulysses by Froude, James Anthony

No use in becoming sentimental or spoony about it.

From A Pirate of Parts by Neville, Richard