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Definition of Spoonies
1. spoony [n] - See also: spoony
Lexicographical Neighbors of Spoonies
Literary usage of Spoonies
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Palace and Cottage: Or, Young America in France and Switzerland. A Story of by Oliver Optic (1869)
"Only the spoonies would get a fellow into a scrape. I say, Shuffles, I will go
halves ... That's right; I thought you would get tired of those spoonies. ..."
2. A Collection of College Words and Customs by Benjamin Homer Hall (1859)
"Suppose that rustication was the fate of a few others of our acquaintance, whom
you cannot call slow, or spoonies either, would it be deemed no disgrace by ..."
3. A Collection of College Words and Customs by Benjamin Homer Hall (1851)
"Suppose that rustication was the fate of a few others of our ac- . quaintance,
whom you cannot call slow, or spoonies either, would it be deemed no disgrace ..."
4. Horses and Hounds: A Practical Treatise on Their Management by K. W. Horlock, John Solomon Rarey, Harrison Weir (1862)
"That's all right," said Bob, "let them have him at once, and we will go and look
for another fox before the spoonies come out. Egad! how they will stare ..."
5. Letters on the Management of Hounds by Knightley William Horlock, Scrutator (1852)
"That's all right," said Bob, " let them have him at once, and we will go and look
for another fox before the spoonies come up. Egad! how they will stare ..."
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