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
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 James Anthony Froude
They were, however, known in Parliament in their early days as "young gentlemen who wore white waistcoats and wrote spoony poetry."
From Queen Victoria by E. Gordon Browne
So that night is devoted to the bustle and confusion of packing up; and various spoony couples moon about the decks, renewing promises and vows in expectation of their parting on the morrow.
From Brighter Britain! (Volume 1 of 2) or Settler and Maori in Northern New Zealand by William Delisle Hay
For the time, however, all such considerations are superseded; that is to say, if the commander himself takes an interest in the sport, and he must be rather a spoony skipper that does not.
From The Lieutenant and Commander Being Autobigraphical Sketches of His Own Career, from Fragments of Voyages and Travels by Basil Hall
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
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
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
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
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
