spoony
pronunciation
How to pronounce spoony in British English:
UK ['spu:nɪ]
How to pronounce spoony in American English:
US ['spunɪ]
Word Origin
- spoony (adj.)
- 1812, "soft, silly, weak-minded;" by 1836 as "foolishly sentimental," with -y (2) + spoon (n.) in a slang sense "silly person, simpleton" (1799), a figurative use of the eating utensil word, perhaps based on the notion of shallowness. Related: Spoonily; spooniness.
Example
- 1. For you made the role of sole spoony .
- 2. Spoony is always easy to be hurt .
- 3. Lloyd spoony , you jump out and scare me , and I 'm gonna pepper spray again !
- 4. Men are more spoony than women .
- 5. He attributes the unmarried wife guqiu and shoots and kills lost a body like a spoony basic careless .