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ˈspooniness
Also spoony-.
[f. spoony a.]
1. Foolishness, silliness.
1824Blackw. Mag. XVI. 273 Abating a little spooniness about respect due to the audience,..it appears to us to be a most sensible piece of criticism.
2. The condition of being sentimentally in love.
1856D. G. Rossetti Let. June (1965) I. 303, I fear tin is out of question, as I think all contributors write for love or spooniness. 1864E. Yates Broken to Harness I. v. 80 A sharp attack of what is commonly known as ‘spooniness’. 1882M. E. Braddon Mt. Royal II. ix. 185 A man in the last stage of spooniness will stand anything. |