adjective. Enamored in a silly or sentimental way.

adjective. Feebly sentimental; gushy.

Being in love; sentimentally fond of (some one): with upon or on.

Soft; silly; weak-minded; specifically, weakly or foolishly fond; sentimental.

noun. A stupid or silly fellow; a noodle; a ninny; a simpleton; especially, a sillily fond sentimental fellow. Also spoon.

Same as spooney.

adjective. Enamored in a silly or sentimental way.

adjective. Feebly sentimental; gushy.

noun. A foolish, simple, or silly person.

noun. A foolishly amorous person.

"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"

attractive  closemouthed  difficult  hard-set  ill-behaved  

affectionate  amatory  

spooney