SPOONS

Noun

spoons

plural of spoon

A child's card game.

(musical instrument) A pair of spoons used as a musical instrument by tapping them on parts of the body.

Verb

spoons

Third-person singular simple present indicative form of spoon

Adjective

spoons (not comparable)

(slang, archaic) Foolishly infatuated with; having a romantic crush on (used with on).

Anagrams

• snoops

Etymology

Shortening.

Proper noun

Spoons

(UK, slang) Any pub belonging to the Wetherspoons chain.

Anagrams

• snoops

Source: Wiktionary

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SPOON

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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