Also 9 spooney, spoonie. [f. SPOON sb. 7.]
1. A simple, silly or foolish person; a noodle.
1795. Potter, Dict. Cant (ed. 2), Spoony, a foolish pretending fellow.
1818. Sporting Mag., III. 51. He must still race on … and his owner must find spooneys to keep him company at this sport.
1848. Thackeray, Van. Fair, xxxiv. What the deuce can she find in that spooney of a Pitt Crawley.
1865. Le 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?
1878. Mary C. Jackson, Chaperon’s Cares, I. v. 57. Pen calls him a spoony, and ridicules him unmercifully.
