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spoon1 /spoon/ noun- An (eating, or serving, etc) instrument with a shallow bowl and a handle
- Anything of similar shape, such as an oar
- An old-fashioned woodenheaded golf club with the face slightly hollowed, commonly used to refer to a three-wood
- A spoonbait (informal)
- A stroke with such a club
- The wooden spoon (Cambridge University; see wooden)
- A simpleton
- Courtship, esp when mawkish or sentimental
- A person who engages in such courtship
- (in the management of chronic pain) one of a finite number of units of energy regarded as being available to a person each day (informal)
transitive verb- To transfer with, or as if with, a spoon
- To shove, scoop, or hit softly up into the air, instead of striking cleanly and definitely
- To court, esp in a sentimental way
- To fish with a spoonbait
- To pack together like spoons
intransitive verb- To indulge in (esp sentimental) courtship
- To fish with a spoonbait
- To lie close in bed together, front to back, like spoons
ORIGIN: OE spōn sliver, chip, shaving, Ger Span chip, ON spānn, spōnn chip, spoon spooney see spoony below spoonˈful noun (pl spoonˈfuls) - As much as fills a spoon
- A small quantity
spoonˈily adverb spoonˈways or spoonˈwise adverb Like spoons packed closely together spoonˈy or spoonˈey adjective - Silly
- Foolishly and demonstratively fond
noun Someone who is spoony spoonˈbait or spoonˈhook noun A lure on a swivel, used in trolling for fish spoonˈbill noun - Any bird of the genus Platalea, similar to the ibises, with a long, flat, broad bill, spoon-shaped at the tip
- A shoveler (the duck)
spoonˈ-fed or spoonˈfed adjective - Fed with a spoon
- Artificially fostered (figurative)
- Taught by doled-out doses of cut-and-dried information
spoonˈ-feed transitive verb spoonhook see spoonbait above. spoonˈworm noun A marine invertebrate of the phylum Echiuroidea with a spoon-like mouthpiece born with a silver spoon in one's mouth see under silver |