Word of the Day for Thursday February 27, 2003
spoony \SPOO-nee\, adjective:
1. Foolish; silly; excessively sentimental.
2. Foolishly or sentimentally in love.
Nevertheless, because we're spoony old things at heart, we
like to believe that some showbiz marriages are different.
--Julie Burchill, "Cut!" [1]The Guardian, February 7, 2001
So when your fervor cools, you think that this suddenly
familiar and lusterless partner couldn't possibly be the
one you're destined to be with; otherwise you'd still be
all spoony, lovey-dovey and bewitched.
--John Dufresne, "What's So Hot About Passion?"
[2]Washington Post, February 9, 2003
We know they aren't doing it for love, otherwise it
wouldn't take $50 million to sucker them into getting
spoony for a construction worker.
--"Say it isn't so, 'Joe,'" [3]USA Today, December 30, 2002
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Spoony is from the slang term spoon, meaning "a simpleton or a
silly person."
spoony \SPOO-nee\, adjective:
1. Foolish; silly; excessively sentimental.
2. Foolishly or sentimentally in love.
Nevertheless, because we're spoony old things at heart, we
like to believe that some showbiz marriages are different.
--Julie Burchill, "Cut!" [1]The Guardian, February 7, 2001
So when your fervor cools, you think that this suddenly
familiar and lusterless partner couldn't possibly be the
one you're destined to be with; otherwise you'd still be
all spoony, lovey-dovey and bewitched.
--John Dufresne, "What's So Hot About Passion?"
[2]Washington Post, February 9, 2003
We know they aren't doing it for love, otherwise it
wouldn't take $50 million to sucker them into getting
spoony for a construction worker.
--"Say it isn't so, 'Joe,'" [3]USA Today, December 30, 2002
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Spoony is from the slang term spoon, meaning "a simpleton or a
silly person."
