spoony

• The midshipmen of the frigate thought their captain spoony, and the captain's clerk of the Tudor was guilty of a most reprehensible breach of confidence, if he spoke the truth, in whispering that he had one day discovered on the commander's desk a sonnet addressed to Stella's eyebrow. —  The Three Lieutenants
• You won't deny that you have been what you call `spoony,' in your abominable slang, eh, Frank?" —  She and I, Volume 1
• He was like that great, splendid, yellow king of dogs which escaped perfection by not having just a spice of evil in his composition Let me add, however, that he was as far as possible from being a "spoony." —  Captains of Industry or, Men of Business Who Did Something Besides Making Money
• SIGRID ARNOLDSON is a delightfully boyish scapegrace, giving us just that soupçon of natural awkwardness which a spoilt sunny Southern lad of sixteen, brought up in such mixed society as is represented by Count Almaviva's household, would occasionally show when more than usually "spoony." —  Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 103, July 9, 1892
• If she be "spoony," that means that she is pretty. —  Dick Prescott's Second Year at West Point Finding the Glory of the Soldier's Life

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