单词 | cooking spoon |
释义 | cooking spoonn. 1. A large, long-handled spoon used in cooking food.Occasionally used in recipes to signify a measure larger than a tablespoon; cf. quot. 1897. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > equipment for food preparation > [noun] > spoon tiremoelle1669 marrow spoon1693 scoop1747 marrow scoop1755 cooking spoon1848 measuring spoon1926–7 apple scoop1969 1848 A. H. tr. J. P. F. Richter Levana ii. ii. 49 One might..frequently put a cooking spoon [Ger. Kochlöffel] into the hand of the boy of genius, and into that of the little cook by birth some romantic feather from a poet's wing. 1897 Hood's Pract. Cook-bk. 177 Mix a sponge of one pint of warm water, a heaping cooking spoon of shortening, one tablespoon of sugar, one teaspoon of salt. 1916 School News & Pract. Educator Oct. 81/2 Never use a cooking spoon for tasting: pour a little from the cooking spoon into a teaspoon, called the tasting spoon. 2014 J. Burns Cabin Fever 111 He..scooped the mushrooms into the pot. Dusting his hands, he took a cooking spoon and began to mix them in. 2. A spoon used to hold a drug (esp. opium or heroin) while it is heated in preparation for immediate use. Now usually spec.: a small spoon in which a drug (esp. heroin) is prepared for injection by being heated and liquefied over a flame. Cf. cook v.1 3a, cooking n. 1b. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > use of drugs and poison > [noun] > equipment for taking drugs > equipment for taking opium pipe1779 layout1869 hop toy1881 toy1881 yen hock1882 yen siang1882 hop-pipe1887 yen hop1901 cooker1905 cooking spoon1917 stem1925 1917 Commerc. Tribune (Cincinnati) 16 Aug. 4/5 In the house the officers found a quantity of drugs, cooking spoon, and other paraphernalia used in cooking opium. 1993 I. Welsh Trainspotting (1994) 188 His gear's normally cut tae fuck, so ye always bung that wee bit mair intae the cooking spoon tae compensate. 2019 Guelph (Ont., Canada) Mercury (Nexis) 19 Apr. Police conducted a search of the vehicle and located a syringe with a yellow substance and two burnt cooking spoons, as well as a small baggie containing 3.6 grams of suspected yellow fentanyl. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2020; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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