spooney

American  

[spoo-nee] / ˈspu ni /

adjective

spoonier, spooniest

1. spoony.

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Example Sentences

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spooney spooniest

"That mamma knows Mr. Fenwick is spooney, and looks up at times to see that he's going on."

From Somehow Good by William Frend De Morgan

“Who cares for my spooney old brother-in-law, Marky?”

From The Master of the Shell by Talbot Baines Reed

And, I must own, I don’t think it’s all the main chance with her, either; they’re sufficiently spooney.

From A Bride from the Bush by E. W. (Ernest William) Hornung

He may have been only "spooney," but it was in a sense that left him no pretence for thinking that anything connected with this beautiful young widow-lady could be unimportant to him.

From Somehow Good by William Frend De Morgan

"Yes, yes, the craythur's doing somethin' in the spooney line," said Billy Quilleash; "him as hasn't the hayseed out of his hair yet."

From The Deemster by Sir Hall Caine

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

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

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

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