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▪ I. spoony, n.|ˈspuːnɪ|
Also 9 spooney, spoonie.
[f. spoon n. 7.]
1. A simple, silly, or foolish person; a noodle.
1795Potter Dict. Cant (ed. 2), Spoony, a foolish pretending fellow. 1818Sporting Mag. III. 51 He must still race on..and his owner must find spooneys to keep him company at this sport. 1848Thackeray Van. Fair xxxiv, What the deuce can she find in that spooney of a Pitt Crawley. 1865Le Fanu Guy Dev. III. xxv. 264 Time.., if he makes us sages in some particulars, in others, makes us spoonies.
2. One who spoons or is foolishly amorous.
1857‘C. Bede’ Verdant Green iii. iv, You don't mean to say you've been doing the spooney—what you call making love? 1878M. C. Jackson Chaperon's Cares I. v. 57 Pen calls him a spoony, and ridicules him unmercifully.
▪ II. spoony, a.|ˈspuːnɪ|
Also spooney.
[f. spoon n. 7, 8, or v. 6, 7.]
1. a. Of persons, etc.: Foolish, soft, silly.
1812J. H. Vaux Flash Dict., Spoony, foolish, half⁓witted, nonsensical. 1813P. Hawker Diary (1893) I. 68 We had some prime slang on the road and, of course, blew up every spoony fellow we could meet. 1835James Gipsy xiv, I was spooney enough to let him get off. 1876Mod. Christianity 60 Then you think that Priests are bound to be mild and spoony?
Comb.1812J. H. Vaux Flash Dict. s.v., A man who has been drinking till he becomes disgusting..is said to be spoony drunk. 1841Lever C. O'Malley lxxxviii, ‘Very singular style of person’—lisped a spooney-looking cornet.
b. Of things: Characterized by foolishness or silliness.
1834C. Mathews Let. 13 Mar. in A. Mathews Mem. Charles Mathews (1839) IV. xiii. 280 It [sc. misreporting a speech] has such a spoony appearance, breaking out in a fresh place with such a phrase. 1843E. FitzGerald Lett. (1889) I. 115, I am really at last going to settle in some spooney quarters in the country. 1846Thackeray Crit. Rev. Wks. 1886 XXIII. 236 That picture is more decidedly spoony than, perhaps, any other of this present season. 1850― Pendennis xiii, They [letters] are too spooney and mild.
2. a. Sentimentally or foolishly amorous.
1836Marryat Midsh. Easy xxii, I never was in love my⁓self, but I've seen many others spooney. 1859Lever D. Dunn lxvi, The man who is not actually in love with you, but only ‘spooney’. 1882B. M. Croker Proper Pride I. iii. 52 They are not a bit a spooney couple; at least I never see any billing or cooing.
b. Const. on or upon.
1828Sporting Mag. XXII. 23, I must confess, I felt rather spoony upon that vixen. 1861Hughes Tom Brown at Oxf. vi, Blake got spooney on a gipsy girl. 1891N. Gould Double Event 60 Marston's awfully spoony on Kingdon's lass.
c. Expressive of sentimental fondness.
1882B. M. Croker Proper Pride I. v. 85 Not a spooney, love-lorn effusion, but a good, rational, amusing letter. 1884Cent. Mag. Dec. 191/2 The little sighs I sigh, and all the spooney ways and looks I can't help treating them to.
Hence ˈspoonyship. nonce-wd.
1838New Monthly Mag. LIII. 453 To be thrown over..is such evidence of spooneyship as a man of sense or spirit can never willingly submit to. |