the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
adjective-and-noun. Same as spooney.
The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
Soft; silly; weak-minded; specifically, weakly or foolishly fond; sentimental.
n. A stupid or silly fellow; a noodle; a ninny; a simpleton; especially, a sillily fond sentimental fellow. Also spoon.
Being in love; sentimentally fond of (some one): with upon or on.
Word Usage
"The publication of "Uncle Tom's Cabin" in 1852 had aroused a great deal of curiosity about the South, and Olmsted, as an alternative to the "spoony fancy pictures" then in circulation, promised to supply "matter of fact matter.""