spooniness

“Instantly Blair was angry; "spooniness" vanished in a flash; he did not speak for fully five minutes.”

The Iron Woman

“Spoon" is just a designation we give to something whose spooniness is a coming together of various causes and conditions, which are themselves empty of inherent existence for the same reason: and the ways in which we break those down, talking about cause and effect, for example, or sense fields, is also subject to deconstruction.”

Hegel on Buddhism

“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!””

Childhood

“All spooniness, all the preposterous idolization of some one who is just like anybody else, all love, (in the narrow sense in which the word is understood by novel-readers,) you feel, when you look back, are Veal.”

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 08, No. 46, August, 1861

“She avoided his love-making, by telling him any sort of spooniness revolted her.”

The Lost Girl

“ALLBUTT-INNETT from reciprocating my increasing spooniness, her parents and brother are of an overwhelming cordiality, and repeatedly mention their ardent hope that I may become their guest up in the hills some time this autumn.”

Baboo Jabberjee, B.A.

“Californian drama are like our hackneyed friends, the Vikings, with a touch, if we may use the term, of spooniness.”

Lost Leaders

“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!”

Childhood