spoony

• “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.”

  The Wall Street Journal: Meaning In a Meadow

• “Twain the former Confederate ranger did not like the change; he considered it a “spoony, slobbering, summer-complaint of a name.””

  Simon & Schuster: LIGHTING OUT FOR THE TERRITORY

• “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.”

  Fictionaut: Watershed

• “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.”

  Fictionaut: Watershed

• “I didn't trust you an inch, then; Kralta did, though, and she's no fool, even if she is spoony about you.”

  Fictionaut: Watershed

• “And here he was, getting spoony round my wife, whom he had affected to despise once on a day for her lowly origins.”

  Fictionaut: The Sky Writer

• “That, and I wanted to be able to say “spoony,” to see what weird searches would be sent my way.”

  Charles | Miette's Bedtime Story Podcast

• “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.”

  The Memoirs of Mr. Charles J. Yellowplush

• “The wordy war lasted fully half an hour, and terribly distressed one spoony”

  The Romance of Isabel Lady Burton

• “He handed down his judgment in the Enterprise: I yearn for the scalp of the soft-shell crab—be he injun or white man—who conceived of that spoony, slobbering, summer-complaint of a name.”

  Simon & Schuster: Mark Twain

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