spoon¹ /spoon/

1. An (eating, or serving, etc) instrument with a shallow bowl and a handle
2. Anything of similar shape, such as an oar
3. An old-fashioned woodenheaded golf club with the face slightly hollowed, commonly used to refer to a three-wood
4. A spoonbait (informal)
5. A stroke with such a club
6. The wooden spoon (Cambridge University; see wooden)
7. A simpleton
8. Courtship, esp when mawkish or sentimental
9. A person who engages in such courtship
10. (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)

1. To transfer with, or as if with, a spoon
2. To shove, scoop, or hit softly up into the air, instead of striking cleanly and definitely
3. To court, esp in a sentimental way
4. To fish with a spoonbait
5. To pack together like spoons

1. To indulge in (esp sentimental) courtship
2. To fish with a spoonbait
3. To lie close in bed together, front to back, like spoons

spooney see spoony below

spoonˈful noun (pl spoonˈfuls)

1. As much as fills a spoon
2. A small quantity

spoonˈily adverb

spoonˈways or spoonˈwise adverb

Like spoons packed closely together

spoonˈy or spoonˈey adjective

1. Silly
2. Foolishly and demonstratively fond

Someone who is spoony

spoonˈbait or spoonˈhook noun

A lure on a swivel, used in trolling for fish

spoonˈbill noun

1. Any bird of the genus Platalea, similar to the ibises, with a long, flat, broad bill, spoon-shaped at the tip
2. A shoveler (the duck)

spoonˈ-fed or spoonˈfed adjective

1. Fed with a spoon
2. Artificially fostered (figurative)
3. 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

spoon² /spoon/

1. (also spoom) to scud before the wind
2. To run before a gale with reduced canvas (old nautical)

spoomˈing adjective (Keats)

Foaming

spoonˈdrift or (orig Scot and N Eng) spinˈdrift noun

Light spray borne on a gale

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