Spoon

(See Apostle-Spoons.)

Therefor behoveth him a ful long spoon
That schal ete with a feend.

Chaucer: The Squieres Tale, 10,916.

Spoon

(A). One who is spoony, or sillily love-sick on a girl.

“He was awful spoons at the time.” —Truth (Queer Story), March 25th, 1886.

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