spoonies

• “We were out one day when a flock of spoonies landed in our decoys.”

  The One That Got Away

• “Turns out spoonies are notorious for finding cover, and this one had hunkered down somewhere on a long, narrow strip of land (the earthen "check" between flooded rice fields), and she was GONE. I hate losing a wounded animal.”

  The One That Got Away

• “Used also figuratively of one who makes love foolishly or ‘spoonies.’”

  Simon & Schuster: No Uncertain Terms

• “Then you are bigger spoonies than I thought you were.”

  Up The Baltic Young America in Norway, Sweden, and Denmark

• “That was only to get your consent to the plan, you spoonies," said”

  Little By Little or, The Cruise of the Flyaway

• “They are nothing but babies -- little spoonies!" said he, contemptuously.”

  Down the Rhine Young America in Germany

• “I watch them go in strongly for being "manly," and "smashing the spoonies" -- asserting intimacies with certain uncertain women in Paris, and proving it by their treatment of ladies at home.”

  The Potiphar Papers

• “Honly fancy, Kid, vot a set of spoonies these 'ere fellows har, not to be goin it like the Hinglish in Hindia, or in the Peninsoola under the”

  Ridgeway An Historical Romance of the Fenian Invasion of Canada

• “I had -- as I deserved to have -- the fate of all other spoonies.”

  Jane Eyre: an autobiography, Vol. I.

• “I had my own fun laughing at the spoonies that never could book my bets fast enough.”

  The Confessions of Harry Lorrequer — Volume 6

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