Definition of "spoony" []

• Enamored in a silly or sentimental way. (adjective)
• Feebly sentimental; gushy. (adjective)

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• "When she left the city, he dispatched ridiculously "spoony" telegrams to her in Baltimore, and in his daily letters indulged in a maudlin sentimentality that might have inspired the envy of a sighing"
• "The publication of "Uncle Tom's Cabin" in 1852 had aroused a great deal of curiosity about the South, and Olmsted, as an alternative to the "spoony fancy pictures" then in circulation, promised to supply "matter of fact matter.""
• "Twain the former Confederate ranger did not like the change; he considered it a “spoony, slobbering, summer-complaint of a name.”"