Definition of Spoonfeed

1. Verb. Feed with a spoon.

Generic synonyms: Feed, Give
Derivative terms: Spoonfeeding

2. Verb. Teach without challenging the students. "The parents spoonfeed a French poem to the children"; "This professor spoonfeeds his students"
Generic synonyms: Instruct, Learn, Teach
Derivative terms: Spoonfeeding

Definition of Spoonfeed

1. Verb. (transitive) Feed using a spoon. ¹

2. Verb. (transitive figuratively) Teach or assist whilst requiring little or no effort on the part of the person being taught or assisted. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Spoonfeed

spoonbills
spoonbowl
spoonbowls
spoonbread
spoondrift
spooned
spooneful
spoonefuls
spooner
spoonerism
spoonerisms
spooners
spooney
spooneys
spoonfed
spoonfeed (current term)
spoonfeeding
spoonfeeds
spoonflower
spoonful
spoonfuls
spoonier
spoonies
spooniest
spoonily
spooning
spoonleaf yucca
spoonless
spoonlike
spoonmeat

Literary usage of Spoonfeed

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Biographical Studies in Scottish Church History by Bp Anthony Mitchell (1914)
""If you will spoonfeed me," he wrote, "I will spoonfeed their Lordships, and perhaps some few grains may get down." Nothing loth Dowden set to work and ..."

2. Biographical Studies in Scottish Church History by Anthony Mitchell (1914)
""If you will spoonfeed me," he wrote, "I will spoonfeed their Lordships, and perhaps some few grains may get down." Nothing loth Dowden set to work and ..."

3. Fraser's Magazine for Town and Country (1878)
"Shall we spoonfeed our babes on science-pap, Till teeth find tougher work ? train them to scan The mechanism of all phenomena. To measure and set it down in ..."

4. The Sunday at Home by Religious Tract Society, Religious Tract Society (Great Britain) (1891)
"I have known a man in this predicament, who at last handed on the idea to another, begging him, as it were, to dress the bantling and spoonfeed it, ..."

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