Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. Spoony character or state; silliness; especially, silly fondness.
Examples
“Instantly Blair was angry; "spooniness" vanished in a flash; he did not speak for fully five minutes.”
“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.”
“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!””
“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.”
“She avoided his love-making, by telling him any sort of spooniness revolted her.”
“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.”
“Californian drama are like our hackneyed friends, the Vikings, with a touch, if we may use the term, of spooniness.”
“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!”
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Durvin I'm just glad to see there's a reason why one of the Final Fantasy games translated an insult as "you spoony bard!" Aug 22, 2010
bilby Nothing to do with nine either. May 17, 2010
refenestration Woah...it has nothing to do with a spoon. May 17, 2010