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Etymology
Origin of spoony
First recorded in 1805–15; spoon (in the archaic sense “shallow person, simpleton, fool”) + -y 1
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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
"Yes, yes, the craythur's doin' somethin' in the spoony line," said Kisseck.
From She's All the World to Me by Caine, Hall, Sir
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)
And, for once, I really don't believe we'll find a spoony couple sitting in the best place.
From V. V.'s Eyes by Harrison, Henry Sydnor
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 Froude, James Anthony
Late walks, and the spooniest of flirtations characterize the Saturday evening.
From The Recreations of a Country Parson by Boyd, Andrew Kennedy Hutchison
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 Hancock, H. Irving (Harrie Irving)
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 Hancock, H. Irving (Harrie Irving)
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 Hancock, H. Irving (Harrie Irving)
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 Hood, Thomas
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