Also spoony-. [f. SPOONY a.]
1. Foolishness, silliness.
1824. Blackw. Mag., XVI. 273. Abating a little spooniness about respect due to the audience,… it appears to us to be a most sensible piece of criticism.
2. The condition of being sentimentally in love.
1864. E. Yates, Broken to Harness, I. v. 80. A sharp attack of what is commonly known as ‘spooniness.’
1882. Miss Braddon, Mt. Royal, II. ix. 185. A man in the last stage of spooniness will stand anything.
