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

A fellow can't show a nice girl a whole lot of spoony attentions, and then back off, letting the girl discover that he has been only fooling all summer.

From Dick Prescott's Second Year at West Point Finding the Glory of the Soldier's Life by Hancock, H. Irving (Harrie Irving)

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 Moore, John Trotwood

All the girls hate him because he is so spoony.

From Turn About Eleanor by Cootes, F. Graham