spooney

American  

[spoo-nee] / ˈspu ni /

adjective

spoonier, spooniest

1. spoony.

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Example Sentences

I said, on second thought," now thinking—goodness, how they stare; think I am not spooney, I suppose; says, "You see, Mrs. Gower, I have to think for us both.

From A Romance of Toronto A Novel by Savigny, Annie Gregg

We defy the acutest of psychologists to estimate precisely the hold love has on a man who is diagnosed, in the language of the vulgar child Sally, as "spooney."

From Somehow Good by De Morgan, William Frend

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 De Morgan, William Frend

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 Hornung, E. W. (Ernest William)

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