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SPOON
spoon
(noun) a piece of cutlery with a shallow bowl-shaped container and a handle; used to stir or serve or take up food
spoon
(noun) formerly a golfing wood with an elevated face
spoon, spoonful
(noun) as much as a spoon will hold; “he added two spoons of sugar”
smooch, spoon
(verb) snuggle and lie in a position where one person faces the back of the others
spoon
(verb) scoop up or take up with a spoon; “spoon the sauce over the roast”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology 1
Noun
spoon (plural spoons)
An implement for eating or serving; a scooped utensil whose long handle is straight, in contrast to a ladle.
An implement for stirring food while being prepared; a wooden spoon.
A measure that will fit into a spoon; a spoonful.
(golf, archaic) A wooden-headed golf club with moderate loft, similar to the modern three wood.
(slang) An oar.
(fishing) A type of metal lure resembling the concave head of a tablespoon.
(dentistry, informal) A spoon excavator.
(figuratively, slang, archaic) A simpleton, a spooney.
(US, military) A safety handle on a hand grenade, a trigger.
(slang) A metaphoric unit of energy available to cope with problems.
Verb
spoon (third-person singular simple present spoons, present participle spooning, simple past and past participle spooned)
To serve using a spoon; to transfer (something) with a spoon.
(intransitive, dated) To flirt; to make advances; to court, to interact romantically or amorously.
(transitive or intransitive, informal, of persons) To lie nestled front-to-back, following the contours of the bodies, in a manner reminiscent of stacked spoons.
(tennis, golf, croquet) To hit (the ball) weakly, pushing it with a lifting motion, instead of striking with an audible knock.
(intransitive) To fish with a concave spoon bait.
(transitive) To catch by fishing with a concave spoon bait.
Etymology 2
Verb
spoon (third-person singular simple present spoons, present participle spooning, simple past and past participle spooned)
Alternative form of spoom
Anagrams
• Poons, no-ops, opson, poons, snoop
Source: Wiktionary
Spoon, v. i. (Naut.)
Definition: See Spoom. [Obs.] We might have spooned before the wind as well as they. Pepys.
Spoon, n. Etym: [OE. spon, AS. sp, a chip; akin to D. spaan, G. span, Dan. spaan, Sw. spån, Icel. spánn, spónn, a chip, a spoon. sq. root170. 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. Chaucer. He must have a long spoon that must eat with the devil. Shak.
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, v. t.
Definition: To take up in, a spoon.
Spoon, v. i.
Definition: To act with demonstrative or foolish fondness, as one in love. [Colloq.]
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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