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Spoon
Researcher 1463359 Started conversation May 5, 2005
Didnt spoon used to mean someone who is silly about love and there was the word 'spooniness'.
Found it when researching Twelfth Night in year eight.
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RFJS__ - trying to write an unreadable book, finding proofreading tricky Posted May 5, 2005
I know 'to spoon' as a verb for being silly about love (as in the Good Omens pun, 'They'd gone there to spoon and, on one memorable occasion, fork'), and 'spoony' as a related adjective (as in the legendary translation howler when Final Fantasy IV was given a English version which included the insult, 'You spoony bard!'; I think there used to be a domain name 'sponybard.nu'). Trouble is, 'spoons'/'spooning' can now have a sexual meaning without punning.
http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=spoon suggests a few meanings.
This could lead to interesting alternative readings of Private Eye's 'Me and My Spoon' column.
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