spooney
English
[edit]Adjective
[edit]spooney (comparative spoonier, superlative spooniest)
- Alternative spelling of spoony
Noun
[edit]spooney (plural spooneys)
- Alternative spelling of spoony
- 1907 August, Robert W[illiam] Chambers, chapter VIII, in The Younger Set, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, →OCLC:
- Elbows almost touching they leaned at ease, idly reading the almost obliterated lines engraved there. ¶ "I never understood it," she observed, lightly scornful. "What occult meaning has a sun-dial for the spooney? I'm sure I don't want to read riddles in a strange gentleman's optics."