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swoony, a.|ˈswuːnɪ|
[f. swoon + -y.]
1. Inclined to swoon.
a1919In recent Dicts. 1978M. Dickens Open Book (1980) ii. 26 For one of her heroes, in the style she originated as a swoony girl in Dulwich, Fanny wrote: [etc.].
2. Inducing a swoon; hence, distractingly attractive, delightful. colloq.
1934in Webster. 1960Wentworth & Flexner Dict. Amer. Slang 534/2 Swoony,..adj., attractive. Teenage use, c1940. More often in movies and stories about teenagers than used by teenagers. 1973T. Pynchon Gravity's Rainbow i. 57 Those eyes she could never quite see into were so swoony. 1974‘R. Tate’ Birds of Bloodied Feather ii. 26 Champers and strawberries and Ronald and swoony lanes on the way back. 1976P. Flower Crisscross i. 11 Their kiss was long and deep and swoony.
Hence ˈswooniness, a quality suggestive of a swoon.
1909R. Bridges in R. W. Dixon Poems p. xxx, The faintness and swooniness is in some sort akin to the remoteness and misty atmosphere of antiquity. |