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

Let me add, however, that he was as far as possible from being a "spoony."

From Captains of Industry or, Men of Business Who Did Something Besides Making Money by Parton, James

Well, Countess, it was only a childish fancy, a boy's infatuation; at sixteen, I was spoony on a girl two years younger than myself, just about the age my Anya is now.

From The Pobratim A Slav Novel by Jones, P.

Poor old Poynsett, I used to think he wanted to be spoony on you, Joan, if he had only known his own mind. 

From The Three Brides by Yonge, Charlotte Mary

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 Hancock, H. Irving (Harrie Irving)