spoony
/ˈspuː.ni/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.67 in modern English
11
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
1
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Example Sentences
- ""She—silly child—is spoony, I think, on that cousin of her's, Dalrymple—he, I believe, is spoony on her.""
- "‘They all laugh at you, you know. They say you're spoony on me.’"
- "Even if they were absolutely spoony for each other it was difficult to imagine either of them taking that first scary step toward romance."
- "That is why we decline to publish any of the letters and verses which Mr. Pen wrote at this period of his life, out of mere regard for the young fellow’s character. They are too spooney and wild."
- "That's a very spoony fork."
- "Major Pendennis, when the offer of the commission was acknowledged and refused, wrote back a curt and somewhat angry letter to the widow, and thought his nephew was rather a spooney."
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Phrases
spoony man