spoony

"Yes, yes, the craythur's doin' somethin' in the spoony line," said Kisseck.

Any young man can get spoony on any girl if he sees enough of her.

Do you mean to say, Bark Lingall, that you will desert me, and go off with that spoony of an officer?

Let me add, however, that he was as far as possible from being a "spoony."