spooney
Americanadjective
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Why, Izzie, what's the matter? you and George are both looking as spooney as—is it, eh?—yes, it is: isn't it?
From The Doctor's Wife by M. E. (Mary Elizabeth) Braddon
If anybody had told me that I should go as spooney about any woman as I have about that little girl Geraldine, I'd have given 'em the lie direct; I would, indeed!
From Beatrice Boville and Other Stories by Ouida
Now, although Norwood averred that he detested petit jeu, hated spooney talk about racing, and dreaded the tiresome display of a "Tartar feast," these were all threatening indications, and he saw their meaning.
From The Daltons, Volume I (of II) Or,Three Roads In Life by Charles James Lever
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
I really cannot say, Jack, I never was in love myself, but I’ve seen many others spooney.
From Mr. Midshipman Easy by Frederick Marryat
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
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 H. Irving (Harrie Irving) Hancock
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
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
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