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ˈspoon-meat
[f. spoon n. + meat n.]
Soft or liquid food for taking with a spoon, esp. by infants or invalids.
1555W. Watreman Fardle of Facions ii. x. 225 Thei are ware, not to spill any spone meate. 1573Tusser Husb. (1878) 101 No spoone meat no bellifull, labourers thinke. 1639O. Wood Alph. Bk. Secrets 195 Eate neither Milke, Broath, nor spoone meat, salt meats, nor fried. 1675H. Woolley Gentlew. Comp. 71 Do not venture to eat Spoon-meat so hot, that the tears stand in your eyes. 1740Cibber Apol. (1756) II. 114 To shew that he was a child, they fed him on the stage with spoon-meat. 1831Carlyle Sart. Res. i. xi, Did he, at one time, wear drivel-bibs, and live on spoon⁓meat? 1884Huxley in L. Huxley Life (1900) II. 70 A fortnight's spoon-meat reduced me to inanity.
b. With a and pl. A kind of this.
1611Cotgr., Ioncade, a certaine spoone-meat made of creame, Rose-water, and Sugar. 1684tr. Bonet's Merc. Compit. vi. 217 To refresh the Patient with Broths and comfortable Spoon-meats. 1705tr. Bosman's Guinea 106 The best..that the poor Sick can get here, are Culinary Vegetables and Spoon-Meats. 1783Med. Comm. I. 238 It allowed spoon-meats to pass.
c. fig. and transf.
1589R. Harvey Pl. Perc. (1860) 9 Martin cald his Arguments Spoon Meat in his protest. 1608Dekker Belman of London Wks. (Grosart) III. 166 The fift Iump, is called Spoone-meate, and that is a messe of knauerie serued in about Supper time. 1649G. Daniel Trinarch, Hen. IV, lxxxviii, Aldermen are still Caudle and Custard, Spoon⁓meat to the Mouth Of present Power. 1879Geo. Eliot Theo. Such v. 113 All human achievement must be wrought down to this spoon-meat. |