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
"And spoony as two mush ladles, I expect," says I. "Humph!" says he, tossin' the brass paper knife reckless onto the polished mahogany desk top.
From On With Torchy by Foster Lincoln
So me an' Kathleen, we soon got spoony an' wanted to marry.
From The Bishop of Cottontown A Story of the Southern Cotton Mills by John Trotwood Moore
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 P. Jones
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
Late walks, and the spooniest of flirtations characterize the Saturday evening.
From The Recreations of a Country Parson by Andrew Kennedy Hutchison Boyd
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
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
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
