spooney

American  

[spoo-nee] / ˈspu ni /

adjective

spoonier, spooniest

1. spoony.

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Example Sentences

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spooney spooniest

I really cannot say, Jack, I never was in love myself, but I’ve seen many others spooney.

From Mr. Midshipman Easy by Marryat, Frederick

I don't know I was ever as spooney as I was about that girl up at Albano.

From The Bramleighs of Bishop's Folly by Lever, Charles James

More unmanageable he could not have been; nor more likely to be spooney about Diana.

From Diana by Warner, Susan

If there was a spooney, or country cousin, among the guests, Lady Ashton would be sure to bring him to Miss Leicester, and whisper her to amuse him if possible, and she would greatly oblige.

From Isabel Leicester A Romance by Maude Alma by Alma, Maude

"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 Caine, Hall, Sir

Well, of all the spooniest, unsociable, selfish people, you two are the worst.

From The Workingman's Paradise An Australian Labour Novel by Miller, John Maurice

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

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)

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)

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)