Meaning & use
Spoony
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Foolishly or excessively sentimental, especially in a romantic way.
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The Victorian novel's spoony hero moons over the heroine for three hundred pages.
They were a spoony pair, always holding hands and giggling.
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A dated, informal word from 19th-century slang, related to the phrase 'spoon on someone,' meaning to flirt sentimentally.
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