spoony

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 began to be jealous of the judge, and the professor too, and absolutely to hate the spoony youth.

From The Giant's Robe by F. Anstey

The young fellow was delighted—conceited—triumphant—and, in one word, a spoony.

From A History of Pendennis, Volume 1 His fortunes and misfortunes, his friends and his greatest enemy by William Makepeace Thackeray

As Dick pushed aside the flap and entered his tent, he beheld his chum and roommate, Greg Holmes, now a cadet lieutenant, carefully transferring himself to his spoony dress uniform.

From Dick Prescotts's Fourth Year at West Point Ready to Drop the Gray for Shoulder Straps by H. Irving (Harrie Irving) Hancock

Nordica charming vocally, but dramatically there is too much of the Becky Sharp about her, and she is merely in a plot with Martha to let in the rich and spoony Juggins called Faust.

From Punch or the London Charivari, Vol. 98 June 7, 1890 by Various

Late walks, and the spooniest of flirtations characterize the Saturday evening.

From The Recreations of a Country Parson by Andrew Kennedy Hutchison Boyd

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

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

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