Spooney
[spu:ni]
Definition
(a.) Weak-minded; demonstratively fond; as, spooney lovers.
(n.) A weak-minded or silly person; one who is foolishly fond.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [Colloquial.] Dunce, blockhead.
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Examples
- Colonel O'Dowd, of the --th regiment, one of those occupying in Paris, warned Lieutenant Spooney of that corps. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- What the deuce can she find in that spooney of a Pitt Crawley? William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- Jim says he's remembered at Oxford as Miss Crawley still--the spooney. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- This history has been written to very little purpose if the reader has not perceived that the Major was a spooney. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- And not the first either, said Ensign Spooney to Ensign Stubble. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- Stubble and Spooney looked to get their companies without purchase. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
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