Definition of Spoon

1. Noun. A piece of cutlery with a shallow bowl-shaped container and a handle; used to stir or serve or take up food.


2. Verb. Scoop up or take up with a spoon. "The women spoon water into the bowl"; "Spoon the sauce over the roast"
Generic synonyms: Remove, Take, Take Away, Withdraw
Entails: Immerse, Plunge

3. Noun. As much as a spoon will hold. "He added two spoons of sugar"
Exact synonyms: Spoonful
Generic synonyms: Containerful

4. Verb. Snuggle and lie in a position where one person faces the back of the others.
Exact synonyms: Smooch
Generic synonyms: Make Out, Neck
Derivative terms: Smooch, Smooching

5. Noun. Formerly a golfing wood with an elevated face.
Generic synonyms: Wood

Definition of Spoon

1. v. i. See Spoom.

2. n. An implement consisting of a small bowl (usually a shallow oval) with a handle, used especially in preparing or eating food.

3. v. t. To take up in, or as in, a spoon.

4. v. i. To act with demonstrative or foolish fondness, as one in love.

5. n. A wooden club with a lofted face.

6. v. t. To catch by fishing with a spoon bait.

7. v. i. To fish with a spoon bait.

Definition of Spoon

1. to take up with a spoon (a type of eating utensil) [v -ED, -ING, -S]

Medical Definition of Spoon

1. 1. An implement consisting of a small bowl (usually a shallow oval) with a handle, used especially in preparing or eating food. ""Therefore behoveth him a full long spoon That shall eat with a fiend," thus heard I say." (Chaucer) "He must have a long spoon that must eat with the devil." (Shak) 2. Anything which resembles a spoon in shape; especially. A spoon bait. 3. A simpleton; a spooney. Spoon bait, a lure used in trolling, consisting of a glistening metallic plate shaped like the bowl of a spoon with a fishhook attached. Spoon bit, a bit for boring, hollowed or furrowed along one side. Spoon net, a net for landing fish. Spoon oar. See under Oar. Origin: OE. Spon, AS. Spn, a chip; akin to D. Spaan, G. Span, Dan. Spaan, Sw. Span, Icel. Spann, sponn, a chip, a spoon. Cf. Span-new. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Spoon

spooks
spooky
spool
spool
spooled
spooler
spoolers
spooling
spoolings
spools
spoom
spoomed
spooming
spooms
spoon (current term)
spoon (current term)
spoon-billed
spoonbill
spoonbill
spoonbills
spoonbill catfish
spoondrift
spooned
spoonerism
spoonerisms
spooney
spooneys
spoonfed
spoonfeed
spoonfeeding

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