spoony

Meanings

1. 1
   adj

   dated: foolishly or excessively sentimental in love

   His friends teased him for becoming spoony over every new acquaintance.

2. 2
   noun

   dated: a foolishly sentimental lover or an infatuated, silly person

   Rochester mocked his former self as a spoony who had ruined himself for a mistress.

3. 3
   adj

   shaped like or resembling a spoon

   The tool's spoony end was designed to scoop soft clay.

Formed from spoon + -y. Nineteenth-century slang used spoon and spooning for sentimental courtship, producing spoony for an infatuated or mawkish person and, as a noun, a foolish lover. A separate literal sense simply means spoon-shaped.

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