spoon

[Spoon]

If it's not a fork or a knife, it’s probably a spoon. The curviest utensil in the drawer, a spoon is good for scooping soup, ice cream, or anything else that might fall through the slats on a fork.

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See Spoom.

Noun
a piece of cutlery with a shallow bowl-shaped container and a handle; used to stir or serve or take up food

Noun
formerly a golfing wood with an elevated face

Noun
as much as a spoon will hold; "he added two spoons of sugar"

Verb
snuggle and lie in a position where one person faces the back of the others

Verb
scoop up or take up with a spoon; "spoon the sauce over the roast"

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v. i.
See Spoom.

n.
An implement consisting of a small bowl (usually a shallow oval) with a handle, used especially in preparing or eating food.

n.
Anything which resembles a spoon in shape; esp. (Fishing), a spoon bait.

n.
Fig.: A simpleton; a spooney.

v. t.
To take up in, or as in, a spoon.

v. i.
To act with demonstrative or foolish fondness, as one in love.


Spoon

Spoon , v. i. (Naut.) See Spoom. [Obs.]
We might have spooned before the wind as well as they.

Spoon

Spoon, n. [OE. spon, AS. spn, a chip; akin to D. spaan, G. span, Dan. spaan, Sw. sp'86n, Icel. sp'a0nn, sp'a2nn, a chip, a spoon. &root;170. Cf. Span-new.] 1. An implement consisting of a small bowl (usually a shallow oval) with a handle, used especially in preparing or eating food.
"Therefore behoveth him a full long spoon That shall eat with a fiend," thus heard I say.
He must have a long spoon that must eat with the devil.
2. Anything which resembles a spoon in shape; esp. (Fishing), a spoon bait. 3. Fig.: A simpleton; a spooney. [Slang] Hood. Spoon bait (Fishing), a lure used in trolling, consisting of a glistening metallic plate shaped like the bowl of a spoon with a fishhook attached. -- Spoon bit, a bit for boring, hollowed or furrowed along one side. -- Spoon net, a net for landing fish. -- Spoon oar. see under Oar.

Spoon

Spoon, v. t. To take up in, a spoon.

Spoon

Spoon, v. i. To act with demonstrative or foolish fondness, as one in love. [Colloq.]

See Spoom.

An implement consisting of a small bowl (usually a shallow oval) with a handle, used especially in preparing or eating food.

To take up in, a spoon.

To act with demonstrative or foolish fondness, as one in love.

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Usage Examples

Sandwiches are wonderful. You don't need a spoon or a plate!

Misspelled Form

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Other Usage Examples

If you can't tell a spoon from a ladle, then you're fat!

To be born in Wales, not with a silver spoon in your mouth, but, with music in your blood and with poetry in your soul, is a privilege indeed.

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