🥰 A lovesick person 😍 Foolishly in love

spoony

1 9.9

A person who shows too much love in a silly, naive way

noun
/ˈspuːni/

Offensive

: sensiblero

Examples

MINNIE PEARL (mock-spoony)

Fiction book (1990)
He was such a spoony romantic, always writing poems for his girlfriend.
Her friends teased her for being spoony after she daydreamed about her crush all day.
Despite his age, he remained a spoony young man, easily swept away by tales of love.

Synonyms

sentimentalist

vsspoony

4 7.5

A person who feels emotions too easily and shows them

is more about foolish naive romantic love than general sentimentality

cornball

vsspoony

Offensive

1 8.1

A person who acts silly and old-fashioned to make people laugh

is more driven by naive romantic feeling than by plain silliness

smitten kitten

vsspoony

Informal

1 9.1

A person who is very much in love and shows it

is more foolishly sentimental and naive than pure intense infatuation

namby-pamby

vsspoony

Offensive

9.9

A person who is not brave and acts weak

is more silly and lovesick rather than weak or feeble

How Sentimental

sentimentalist

4 7.5

soppy

1 5.8

spoony

Offensive

1 9.9

lovestruck

1 4.8

romantic

7 4.6

Surface Forms

spoony singular

spoonies plural

Morphology

spoony = spoon (opaque) = spoon + y

The word is historically built from 'spoon' + '-y', but the meaning 'foolishly sentimental' is a specialized and non-literal extension that is not predictable from the base alone.

Etymology

Spoony as a noun comes from the same old slang with spoon meaning 'to cuddle' or 'to show love'. So a spoony is someone who is silly and overly romantic, the person who falls in love too easily.