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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.
Specialized synonyms: Dessert Spoon, Runcible Spoon, Soup Spoon, Soupspoon, Sugar Shell, Sugar Spoon, Tablespoon, Tea Maker, Teaspoon, Wooden Spoon
2. Verb. Scoop up or take up with a spoon. "The women spoon water into the bowl"; "Spoon the sauce over the roast"
3. Noun. As much as a spoon will hold. "He added two spoons of sugar"
4. Verb. Snuggle and lie in a position where one person faces the back of the others.
5. Noun. Formerly a golfing wood with an elevated face.
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
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