Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Enamored in a silly or sentimental way.
- adj. Feebly sentimental; gushy.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Soft; silly; weak-minded; specifically, weakly or foolishly fond; sentimental.
- n. A stupid or silly fellow; a noodle; a ninny; a simpleton; especially, a sillily fond sentimental fellow. Also spoon.
- Being in love; sentimentally fond of (some one): with upon or on.
Wiktionary
- adj. Enamored in a silly or sentimental way.
- adj. Feebly sentimental; gushy.
- n. A foolish, simple, or silly person.
- n. A foolishly amorous person.
GNU Webster's 1913
- Same as spooney.
Examples
“When she left the city, he dispatched ridiculously "spoony" telegrams to her in Baltimore, and in his daily letters indulged in a maudlin sentimentality that might have inspired the envy of a sighing”
“The publication of "Uncle Tom's Cabin" in 1852 had aroused a great deal of curiosity about the South, and Olmsted, as an alternative to the "spoony fancy pictures" then in circulation, promised to supply "matter of fact matter.”
“Twain the former Confederate ranger did not like the change; he considered it a “spoony, slobbering, summer-complaint of a name.””
“And here he was, getting spoony round my wife, whom he had affected to despise once on a day for her lowly origins.”
“On one hand, there was an exciting variety about Caprice's boudoir behaviour, the merry concubine performing for the fun of it; on t'other, my horsey charmer was wildly passionate and spoony about me - and there was more of her.”
“Vanity would have tempted me to take Hutton's judgment that she was dead spoony on me and had done him in for that reason, if she had not since handed me my marching orders.”
“I didn't trust you an inch, then; Kralta did, though, and she's no fool, even if she is spoony about you.”
“That, and I wanted to be able to say “spoony,” to see what weird searches would be sent my way.”
“The wordy war lasted fully half an hour, and terribly distressed one spoony”
“I recklect there was at our school, in Smithfield, a chap of this milksop, spoony sort, who appeared among the romping, ragged fellers in a fine flanning dressing-gownd, that his mama had given him.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘spoony’.
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jaydrox's list
Mah list!
mediocracy, captivatingly, devastatingly, dazedly, heavenly, flawless, copious, conviction, synoptic, amalgamation, prefatory, precursory and 150 more...
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Words of the day
The list of Wordnik words of the day.
panurgic, chapfallen, billingsgate, latration, witticaster, slitheroo, rux, crotchet, mirliton, arenose, ruelle, jane-of-apes and 76 more...
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Just 'cause I like 'em, S
scrunch, solace, sabotage, saccade, sacerdotal, sacrilegious, sacristy, snappy, skew, steadfast, scowl, scorch and 781 more...
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beatricks's Words
tremendous, naiad, thrush, samsara, thronging, nascent, broom, aristeia, streak, susurrant, reverberate, resistentialism and 352 more...
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word list!!!!
lagniappe
syzygy, bloviate, lagniappe, laconic, condign, umbrage, susurrus, thaumaturgy, capacious, capitulate, glower, repast and 170 more...
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Hiroe's Words
facetious, bardic, twatwaffle, cattywampus, splendiferous, zomg, merf, fwaa, fnord, tortify, schwiz, blort and 225 more...
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Wordnik Notebooks
All the words from the cover of the Wordnik notebook.
A few words appear twice: frass, cruet, luna, thalweg, and possibly some more.
Careful: Contains spoilers!spilth, frass, fomite, rux, worricow, alizarin, mundungus, parthenocarpy, jib, whinyard, weisure, nimiety and 217 more...
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S is for Sweater Puppy
My S Words
secret agent, sweater puppy, skivvies, soda jerk, surly, space madness, sad sack, sadsack, scoundrel, scrabble, shaken teddy bear..., saucy and 178 more...
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froseph's list
saritorial, pogrom, synecdoche, metonymy, tonsorial, prophylactic, ozymandias, nepenthe, tonsorial, tranche, allodium, allodial and 105 more...
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From the Vault
Before there was Wordie, there was... Notepad. Last night I fired up my old laptop for the first time in a couple years. It was a trip down memory lane, for I discovered that this machine (once pre...
aglet, akimbo, callipygian, defenestration, dulcet, exsanguinate, floccinaucinihili..., gadfly, omphaloskepsis, solipsism, souse, verisimilitude and 40 more...
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Dictionary.com Words of the Days of 2003
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subaltern, itinerant, scuttlebutt, pule, placate, waylay, sub rosa, upbraid, gaucherie, mores, sough, spoony and 43 more...
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scoutmd's Words
trousseau, retinue, cavil, beset, snit, forfend, nirvana, renascent, decamp, chocolate-box, flagrante delicto, philter and 24 more...
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Spoonyalchemist's List
Cause I figured I should have one. ;)
spoony, lollop, yggdrasil, elysian fields, mesopotamians, flummox, phantasmagoria, mephistophelian, bard, banzai, schadenfreude, alchemist and 14 more...
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gerbert's Words
unflappable, semaphore, pusillanimous, succinct, tchotchke, cupidity, nugatory, avarice, yugen, lambast, trifling, indelible and 36 more...
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Words I had to Look Up. Srsly.
These are words I've encountered reading that I've had to look up on-the-spot.
execrable, ex cathedra, liminal, elegiac, synecdoche, desuetude, disingenuous, parallelopiped, vulpine, probity, amanuensis, mustelid and 64 more...
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Lampbane's List of Words That She Hasn't Though...
Title says it all. Because.
conniption, enigma, equitable, sublimate, conglomeration, niggardly, octave, vitriol, clandestine, uvula, caveat, pointillism and 37 more...
grant_barrett This word was chosen as Wordnik word of the day. Nov 11, 2009
laiane (adj.) unduly sentimental, silly, foolish Nov 7, 2009
oroboros Puts one in mind of "spoonerism", except spoonerism derives from the name of marrowsky. Oct 22, 2009
lampbane "You spoony bard!" Dec 12, 2006