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- noun Plural form of
spoony .
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Examples
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Turns out spoonies are notorious for finding cover, and this one had hunkered down somewhere on a long, narrow strip of land (the earthen "check" between flooded rice fields), and she was GONE. I hate losing a wounded animal.
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We were out one day when a flock of spoonies landed in our decoys.
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Used also figuratively of one who makes love foolishly or ‘spoonies.’
No Uncertain Terms William Safire 2003
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Used also figuratively of one who makes love foolishly or ‘spoonies.’
No Uncertain Terms William Safire 2003
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Used also figuratively of one who makes love foolishly or ‘spoonies.’
No Uncertain Terms William Safire 2003
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Used also figuratively of one who makes love foolishly or ‘spoonies.’
No Uncertain Terms William Safire 2003
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"That was only to get your consent to the plan, you spoonies," said
Little By Little or, The Cruise of the Flyaway Oliver Optic 1859
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"They are nothing but babies -- little spoonies!" said he, contemptuously.
Down the Rhine Young America in Germany Oliver Optic 1859
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"Then you are bigger spoonies than I thought you were."
Up The Baltic Young America in Norway, Sweden, and Denmark Oliver Optic 1859
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I watch them go in strongly for being "manly," and "smashing the spoonies" -- asserting intimacies with certain uncertain women in Paris, and proving it by their treatment of ladies at home.
The Potiphar Papers George William Curtis 1858
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