[ourplace] spoony Word of the Day

  • From: "Marty Rimpau" <mrimpau@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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  • Date: Tue, 14 Feb 2017 08:23:20 -0800

Dictionary.com Word Of The Day
Feb. 14, 2017
spoony\SPOO-nee\adjective
1. Informal. foolishly or sentimentally amorous.
2. Informal. foolish; silly.
QuotesGrowing a mustache and turning spoony over a woman like that, you
really are a fool!
-- ShÅ«sei Tokuda (1872–1943), Rough Living, translated by Richard
Torrance, 2001
  Origin of spoonySpoony comes from a rare sense of spoon â€œa shallow
person, fool, simpleton,” first recorded at the end of the 18th
century and occurring for the last time in Finnegans Wake. Spoony, the
adjective that derives from spoon, entered English in the early 19th
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