spoon
IPA: spˈun
noun
- 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 spoony.
- (US, military) A safety handle on a hand grenade, a trigger.
- (slang) A metaphoric unit of finite physical and mental energy available for daily activities, especially in the context of living with chronic illness or disability.
verb
- 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.
- Alternative form of spoom [(nautical) To sail briskly with the wind astern, with or without sails hoisted.]
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Examples of "spoon" in Sentences
- Look at the spoon and the bowl.
- The spoon is sinuated by a magician.
- The copper was probably in the spoon.
- The spoon is then brought to the mouth.
- The leaves are succulent and spoon shaped.
- Eat soup noiselessly and with the side of the spoon.
- When the spoon hits the mug, the spoon and mug vibrate.
- Of course the fork was invented marginally a while before the spoon.
- The major items of cutlery in the Western world are the knife, fork and spoon.
- He was the inventor of the spoon with the fork on the other side of the handle.
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