Word of the Day for Tuesday February 14, 2006 spoony \SPOO-nee\, adjective: 1. Foolish; silly; excessively sentimental. 2. Foolishly or sentimentally in love. Nevertheless, because we're spoony old things at heart, we like to believe that some showbiz marriages are different. -- Julie Burchill, "Cut!" [1]The Guardian, February 7, 2001 So when your fervor cools, you think that this suddenly familiar and lusterless partner couldn't possibly be the one you're destined to be with; otherwise you'd still be all spoony, lovey-dovey and bewitched. -- John Dufresne, "What's So Hot About Passion?" [2]Washington Post, February 9, 2003 We know they aren't doing it for love, otherwise it wouldn't take $50 million to sucker them into getting spoony for a construction worker. -- "Say it isn't so 'Joe,'" [3]USA Today, December 30, 2002 _________________________________________________________ Spoony is from the slang term spoon, meaning "a simpleton or a silly person." References 1. http://www.guardian.co.uk/guardian/ 2. http://www.washingtonpost.com/ 3. http://www.usatoday.com/ Dictionary.com Entry and Pronunciation http://dictionary.reference.com/search?r=9&q=spoony