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Definition of spoon in English: spoonnoun spuːnspun 1An implement consisting of a small, shallow oval or round bowl on a long handle, used for eating, stirring, and serving food. Example sentencesExamples - Bung it in the pan and smooth it out with an oiled spoon.
- A carpenter or carver of mortars and spoons might become a sculptor of statues.
- In any case, the idea is good - eliminate the reason consumers can't eat yogurt on the run, based upon the premise that consumers can't ever find a spoon to eat their yogurt.
- He would make everyday utensils, such as spoons and bowls, and even made a 24-blade knife.
- He is like a child hammering a spoon on the table, the way he pounds his fists on the arm of his chair.
- It also appeals to mothers because you don't have to pack a spoon for it and then wonder if it's going to come back.
- It's yogurt in a tube so you don't need a spoon to eat it.
- Thirteen-month-old Kristin turns her head away when offered food on a spoon.
- Puddings are devoured amid a flurry of spoons darting back and forth across the table.
- A table, covered in white cloth and silver spoons was set in front of him, and he went to his meat.
- Watching the chefs at work was fascinating too although I was a bit taken aback to note that they lick their fingers and serving spoons as they plate up the food.
- Our fields are full of old spoons and forks and pieces of broken cups, saucers and plates.
- He sits upright and brings his spoon up to his lips.
- ‘These products are designed to be a convenient way to get the benefits of dairy in the morning without having to sit down with a bowl and spoon,’ she says.
- Yogurts not only are designed with resealable tops, but with in-lid spoons.
- Alright, open the jar and get your spoon and take a big scoop out of it.
- Never tap your water glass with a spoon to get the server's attention.
- Minutes later, he stops stirring and puts down the spoon.
- So I borrowed the spoon and I took it to Roy in the Hilton Hotel in New York.
- Holding a spoon and a bowl, this woman lunches quietly, pensively and, most importantly, alone on the grass.
- 1.1 The contents of a spoon.
Example sentencesExamples - I dropped the strainer method and adopted tea bags, made in the mug, but the drink (Assam with no more than a drop of milk and two heaped spoons of sugar) turned out the same: hot, strong and syrupy.
- One day I was putting six spoons of sugar into a cup of tea, when I saw some men at another table watching me.
- 1.2spoons A pair of spoons held in the hand and beaten together rhythmically as a percussion instrument.
Example sentencesExamples - It is a whimsical piece featuring spoons and stride piano.
- If signing policies get any more experimental and eclectic, they'll be offering contracts to buskers who play the spoons.
- Remember, if you are having trouble keeping the spoons in line, you are probably not holding them firmly.
- By swapping guitars for spoons, the band's sound is basic yet shiny.
- Guests in the front row are provided with refreshment (club sandwiches) and spoons to play in some of the more lively numbers.
- As with bones, spoons are usually played in pairs and usually a pair in each hand.
- But it's not just a superior production job they have going for them: Volume 1 would be just as chilling played on a banjo and a set of spoons.
- There's the potentially useful stuff; glossaries of opera terms, a hip-hop dictionary, a guide to playing the spoons and so on.
2A thing resembling a spoon in shape. Example sentencesExamples - They'd grow that pinkie at least a good half-inch past the finger and shape it perfectly, and that was the ultimate coke spoon of the time.
- 2.1 A fishing lure designed to wobble when pulled through the water.
Example sentencesExamples - During the past week 26 anglers caught 53 trout for 68 lb in 49 angling days, mostly all to wet fly but also some by anglers trolling spoon baits.
- We could see how many fishermen had delved into these waters by the hundreds of spoon baits lodged in the weed.
- Some fishermen trolled dead bait as well as various types of spoon baits and some trout were caught.
- 2.2 An oar with a broad curved blade.
Synonyms oar, scull, sweep, blade, spade - 2.3Golf dated A club with a slightly concave wooden head.
verb spuːnspun 1with object and adverbial of direction Put (food) into or on something with a spoon. Rosie spooned sugar into her mug Example sentencesExamples - He then opened a jar of cherry preserve, spooned some out, and put it in his mouth.
- I spooned some of the whipped cream into my mouth, making sure I didn't get it all round my mouth.
- Tina watched, shaking her head as Hank spooned a generous helping of rice into his bowl before filling it with chowder.
- ‘Well,’ I began, spooning some banana into my mouth.
- I opened the freezer, grabbed a quart of ice scream and spooned a few scoops into a bowl.
- When the batter was ready, I spooned batter onto a cookie sheet, and heated the stove.
- He had already seated his two children on his lap and was now spooning generous helpings of spiced apple sauce onto their plates.
- Alexander had eaten more of the fruit dessert than he had thought and found himself spooning the last of it on his plate.
- The sailor nodded in reply, spooning some porridge into his mouth.
- I reach for it and he shakes his head; he spoons the sugar on my rice.
- I absently spooned some of my porridge into my mouth, my thoughts focused on the two pages of a one month old London newspaper which I had managed to get my hands on the day before in town.
- She stood over him, frowning, as Joe spooned soup into his mouth.
- She sat back down and spooned some stew into her mouth.
- She was smoking a cheap cigarette while spooning white sugar into a cup of tea stewed from the cheapest of teabags.
- He sat on the cot just beside Jude's, spooning cold beans into his mouth.
- I watched with concern as she spooned it into Maki's mouth.
- Raven began to settle back but then Morgaine spooned some peas onto her knife and shoved them into her mouth.
- He spooned some into Adam's reluctantly obedient mouth and crooned, ‘There we are.’
Synonyms scoop, scoop up, spade, dig, excavate, move, shift, heap, ladle, toss 2dated, informal no object (of two people) behave in an amorous way; kiss and cuddle. I saw them spooning on the beach Example sentencesExamples - ‘The shooter aiming from Horseshoe Beach thought you and I were spooning on that ledge,’ she whispered.
Synonyms embrace, hug, caress, pet, fondle - 2.1 (of two people) lie close together sideways and front to back, so as to fit together like spoons.
Example sentencesExamples - She spooned up against him, hooking her chin on his neck.
- Morvern spoons with her boyfriend's dead body on the living room floor, in a silence and darkness broken only by the visual and sonic buzz of cycling Christmas lights.
- Caleb turned off the light and spooned up beside her and kissed the back of her head before he closed his eyes and tried to sleep.
3with object Hit (a ball) up into the air with a soft or weak stroke. he spooned his shot high over the bar
Derivatives nounˈspuːnəˈspunər usually spoonersdated, informal A person kissing and cuddling another person amorously. he would use his red light and find spooners at night
Origin Old English spōn 'chip of wood', of Germanic origin; related to German Span 'shaving'. sense 1 of the noun is of Scandinavian origin. The verb dates from the early 18th century. In Old English a spoon was a chip of wood or a splinter, from the same Germanic root that gives us the span of spick and span. The ‘eating utensil’ sense came in the Middle Ages, probably from the fact that spoons were most often carved out of wood or horn. The team that comes last in a competition can be said to win the wooden spoon. The original winner, back in the early 19th century, was the candidate coming last in the final examination in mathematics at Cambridge University. As a symbol of his ‘wooden-headedness’ or stupidity he would be presented with a wooden spoon. Spooning is an old slang word meaning ‘to behave in an amorous way, kiss and cuddle’, first recorded in the 1830s and in vogue until the middle of the next century. It probably comes from the use of spoon to mean ‘a foolish person’, which developed into being spoons about someone, or having the spoons for them—being infatuated with them.
Rhymes afternoon, attune, autoimmune, baboon, balloon, bassoon, bestrewn, boon, Boone, bridoon, buffoon, Cameroon, Cancún, cardoon, cartoon, Changchun, cocoon, commune, croon, doubloon, dragoon, dune, festoon, galloon, goon, harpoon, hoon, immune, importune, impugn, Irgun, jejune, June, Kowloon, lagoon, lampoon, loon, macaroon, maroon, monsoon, moon, Muldoon, noon, oppugn, picayune, platoon, poltroon, pontoon, poon, prune, puccoon, raccoon, Rangoon, ratoon, rigadoon, rune, saloon, Saskatoon, Sassoon, Scone, soon, spittoon, swoon, Troon, tune, tycoon, typhoon, Walloon Definition of spoon in US English: spoonnounspo͞onspun 1An implement consisting of a small, shallow oval or round bowl on a long handle, used for eating, stirring, and serving food. Example sentencesExamples - He sits upright and brings his spoon up to his lips.
- Minutes later, he stops stirring and puts down the spoon.
- He would make everyday utensils, such as spoons and bowls, and even made a 24-blade knife.
- Alright, open the jar and get your spoon and take a big scoop out of it.
- Watching the chefs at work was fascinating too although I was a bit taken aback to note that they lick their fingers and serving spoons as they plate up the food.
- Thirteen-month-old Kristin turns her head away when offered food on a spoon.
- Our fields are full of old spoons and forks and pieces of broken cups, saucers and plates.
- A carpenter or carver of mortars and spoons might become a sculptor of statues.
- It also appeals to mothers because you don't have to pack a spoon for it and then wonder if it's going to come back.
- A table, covered in white cloth and silver spoons was set in front of him, and he went to his meat.
- Puddings are devoured amid a flurry of spoons darting back and forth across the table.
- Never tap your water glass with a spoon to get the server's attention.
- Yogurts not only are designed with resealable tops, but with in-lid spoons.
- Holding a spoon and a bowl, this woman lunches quietly, pensively and, most importantly, alone on the grass.
- In any case, the idea is good - eliminate the reason consumers can't eat yogurt on the run, based upon the premise that consumers can't ever find a spoon to eat their yogurt.
- So I borrowed the spoon and I took it to Roy in the Hilton Hotel in New York.
- He is like a child hammering a spoon on the table, the way he pounds his fists on the arm of his chair.
- It's yogurt in a tube so you don't need a spoon to eat it.
- ‘These products are designed to be a convenient way to get the benefits of dairy in the morning without having to sit down with a bowl and spoon,’ she says.
- Bung it in the pan and smooth it out with an oiled spoon.
- 1.1 The contents of a spoon.
Example sentencesExamples - One day I was putting six spoons of sugar into a cup of tea, when I saw some men at another table watching me.
- I dropped the strainer method and adopted tea bags, made in the mug, but the drink (Assam with no more than a drop of milk and two heaped spoons of sugar) turned out the same: hot, strong and syrupy.
- 1.2spoons A pair of spoons held in the hand and beaten together rhythmically as a percussion instrument.
Example sentencesExamples - There's the potentially useful stuff; glossaries of opera terms, a hip-hop dictionary, a guide to playing the spoons and so on.
- By swapping guitars for spoons, the band's sound is basic yet shiny.
- But it's not just a superior production job they have going for them: Volume 1 would be just as chilling played on a banjo and a set of spoons.
- It is a whimsical piece featuring spoons and stride piano.
- As with bones, spoons are usually played in pairs and usually a pair in each hand.
- Remember, if you are having trouble keeping the spoons in line, you are probably not holding them firmly.
- Guests in the front row are provided with refreshment (club sandwiches) and spoons to play in some of the more lively numbers.
- If signing policies get any more experimental and eclectic, they'll be offering contracts to buskers who play the spoons.
2A thing resembling a spoon in shape. Example sentencesExamples - They'd grow that pinkie at least a good half-inch past the finger and shape it perfectly, and that was the ultimate coke spoon of the time.
- 2.1 A fishing lure designed to wobble when pulled through the water.
Example sentencesExamples - Some fishermen trolled dead bait as well as various types of spoon baits and some trout were caught.
- During the past week 26 anglers caught 53 trout for 68 lb in 49 angling days, mostly all to wet fly but also some by anglers trolling spoon baits.
- We could see how many fishermen had delved into these waters by the hundreds of spoon baits lodged in the weed.
- 2.2 An oar with a broad curved blade.
Synonyms oar, scull, sweep, blade, spade - 2.3Golf dated A club with a slightly concave wooden head.
verbspo͞onspun 1with object and adverbial of direction Convey (food) somewhere by using a spoon. Rosie spooned sugar into her mug Example sentencesExamples - He spooned some into Adam's reluctantly obedient mouth and crooned, ‘There we are.’
- He had already seated his two children on his lap and was now spooning generous helpings of spiced apple sauce onto their plates.
- I watched with concern as she spooned it into Maki's mouth.
- Alexander had eaten more of the fruit dessert than he had thought and found himself spooning the last of it on his plate.
- ‘Well,’ I began, spooning some banana into my mouth.
- I reach for it and he shakes his head; he spoons the sugar on my rice.
- Tina watched, shaking her head as Hank spooned a generous helping of rice into his bowl before filling it with chowder.
- Raven began to settle back but then Morgaine spooned some peas onto her knife and shoved them into her mouth.
- She sat back down and spooned some stew into her mouth.
- I absently spooned some of my porridge into my mouth, my thoughts focused on the two pages of a one month old London newspaper which I had managed to get my hands on the day before in town.
- He then opened a jar of cherry preserve, spooned some out, and put it in his mouth.
- When the batter was ready, I spooned batter onto a cookie sheet, and heated the stove.
- She stood over him, frowning, as Joe spooned soup into his mouth.
- The sailor nodded in reply, spooning some porridge into his mouth.
- I opened the freezer, grabbed a quart of ice scream and spooned a few scoops into a bowl.
- He sat on the cot just beside Jude's, spooning cold beans into his mouth.
- I spooned some of the whipped cream into my mouth, making sure I didn't get it all round my mouth.
- She was smoking a cheap cigarette while spooning white sugar into a cup of tea stewed from the cheapest of teabags.
Synonyms scoop, scoop up, spade, dig, excavate, move, shift, heap, ladle, toss 2dated, informal no object (of two people) behave in an amorous way; kiss and cuddle. I saw them spooning on the beach Example sentencesExamples - ‘The shooter aiming from Horseshoe Beach thought you and I were spooning on that ledge,’ she whispered.
Synonyms embrace, hug, caress, pet, fondle - 2.1 (of two people) lie close together sideways and front to back with bent knees, so as to fit together like spoons.
Example sentencesExamples - Morvern spoons with her boyfriend's dead body on the living room floor, in a silence and darkness broken only by the visual and sonic buzz of cycling Christmas lights.
- She spooned up against him, hooking her chin on his neck.
- Caleb turned off the light and spooned up beside her and kissed the back of her head before he closed his eyes and tried to sleep.
3Hit (a ball) up into the air with a soft or weak stroke. he spooned his shot high over the bar
Origin Old English spōn ‘chip of wood’, of Germanic origin; related to German Span ‘shaving’. spoon (sense 1 of the noun) is of Scandinavian origin. The verb dates from the early 18th century. |