spoony
adjective
foolishly or sentimentally amorous.
spooniness
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a word derived from
spoony.
Example Sentences
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Her shoulder was close to my lips, I looked at it and kissed it, She did not turn round, but Woloda remarked without raising his head, "What spooniness!"
From Childhood by C. J. Hogarth
CHARLES, you will drive me wild, with your intolerable spooniness.
From Punchinello, Volume 2, No. 29, October 15, 1870 by Various
Instantly Blair was angry; "spooniness" vanished in a flash; he did not speak for fully five minutes.
From The Iron Woman by Margaret Wade Campbell Deland
