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Etymology
Origin of spoony
First recorded in 1805–15; spoon (in the archaic sense “shallow person, simpleton, fool”) + -y 1
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Foolish people may have been called spoony because, like the bowl of a spoon, they are shallow and lack depth.
From The Guardian ● Aug. 19, 2019
He's that spry and full of jokes and he's gettin' right spoony.
From In a Little Town by Rupert Hughes
You came here to show how hard you'd got the railroad fever--hey, you spoony?
From Ralph in the Switch Tower by Allen Chapman
Let me add, however, that he was as far as possible from being a "spoony."
From Captains of Industry or, Men of Business Who Did Something Besides Making Money by James Parton
Poor old Poynsett, I used to think he wanted to be spoony on you, Joan, if he had only known his own mind.
From The Three Brides by Charlotte Mary Yonge
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
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
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
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
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