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Examples

  • Spooner -- who might almost be called Spooney, he looks so imbecile and sweet.

    The Big Otter 1859

  • 'He should be called Spooney Sponge, not Soapey Sponge,' observed Captain

    Mr. Sponge's Sporting Tour Robert Smith Surtees 1833

  • (“Spooney!” added the clerk again, with another stir.)

    Great Expectations 2007

  • Spooney!” said the clerk, in a low voice, giving him a stir with his elbow.

    Great Expectations 2007

  • ‘I told you what would come of admitting literary men into the Club,’ says Ranville Ranville to his colleague, Spooney, of the Tape and Sealing – Wax Office.

    The Book of Snobs 2006

  • Stubble and Spooney looked to get their companies without purchase.

    Vanity Fair 2006

  • AM rather free about women, he had often said, smiling and nodding knowingly to Stubble and Spooney, and other comrades of the mess-table; and they rather respected him than otherwise for this prowess.

    Vanity Fair 2006

  • To this rule Mr. Selby, in this part, is a melancholy exception; for he seems utterly ignorant of such a distinction, broad as it is -- he is silly himself, instead of causing silliness in _Spooney_.

    Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, August 7, 1841 Various

  • Stubble and Spooney looked to get their companies without purchase.

    XVIII. Who Played on the Piano Captain Dobbin Bought 1917

  • Stubble and Spooney thought him a sort of Apollo; Dobbin took him to be an Admirable Crichton; and Mrs. Major O’Dowd acknowledged he was an elegant young fellow, and put her in mind of Fitzjurld Fogarty, Lord Castlefogarty’s second son.

    XIII. Sentimental and Otherwise 1917

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