Spoon

[spuːn] or [spʊn]

Definition

(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.) scoop up or take up with a spoon; 'spoon the sauce over the roast'.

Inputed by Bobbie--From WordNet

Definition

(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.

Checked by Giselle

Definition

n. an instrument with a shallow bowl and handle for use in preparing serving or in eating food: anything like a spoon or its bowl as an oar: in golf a wooden-headed club of varying length having the face more or less spooned used in approaching the holes from varying distances.—v.t. to use a spoon upon: to lie spoon fashion with.—v.i. to fish with a spoon-hook: in croquet to shove or scoop with the mallet: to be foolishly fond to indulge in endearments openly.—ns. Spoon′-bait a revolving metallic lure attached to a fishing-line by a swivel used in trolling for fish; Spoon′bill a family of birds (Plataleid) allied to the Ibidid and more distantly to the storks with a bill long flat and broad throughout and much dilated in a spoon form at the tip; Spoon′-drift light spray borne on a gale; Spoon′ful as much as fills a spoon: a small quantity:—pl. Spoon′fuls.—adv. Spoon′ily in a spoony or silly way.—n. Spoon′meat food taken with a spoon such as is given to young children.—adv. Spoon′ways applied to a way of packing slaves in ships very closely together.—adjs. Spoon′y Spoon′ey silly weakly affectionate foolishly fond.—n. a simple fellow: one foolishly fond of a sweetheart.—Apostle spoon (see Apostle); Dessert-spoon (see Dessert); Eucharistic spoon the cochlear or labis; Tablespoon (see Table).—Be spoons on to be silly in the manifestation of one's love for a woman.

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