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Definition of Spoon food
1. Noun. A diet that does not require chewing; advised for those with intestinal disorders.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Spoon Food
Literary usage of Spoon food
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Quarterly Review by William Gifford, George Walter Prothero, John Gibson Lockhart, John Murray, Whitwell Elwin, John Taylor Coleridge, Rowland Edmund Prothero Ernle, William Macpherson, William Smith (1879)
"t spoon-food. On his next visit, his patient was at her dinne^-^^ and asked ...
She was indeed taking spoon-food : but that spoo^ ^D. food was — haggis ! ..."
2. The Clinical Journal (1893)
"... to get the physiological rest for his heart, he must have nothing but spoon
food, which should be given in small quantities and at frequent intervals. ..."
3. Primeval Man: An Examination of Some Recent Speculations by George Douglas Campbell Argyll (1868)
"The web-foot is correlated to an aquatic habitat: and the spoon-bill is correlated
to spoon-food. And accordingly this association of form in foot and bill ..."
4. The Reign of Law by George Douglas Campbell Argyll (1871)
"The web-foot is correlated to an aquatic habitat: and the spoon-bill is correlated
to spoon-food. And accordingly this association of form in foot and bill ..."
5. Daytrips Scotland and Wales by Judith Frances Duddle (2003)
"... then topped up with boiling water and gently stirred with a silver spoon.
FOOD AND DRINK IN WALES The majority of restaurants across Wales provide ..."
6. Cooley's Cyclopædia of Practical Receipts and Collateral Information in the by Arnold James Cooley (1892)
"... is attributed to the fact that whereas the English mother feeds her offspring
on thick spoon-food, the Scotch woman nourishes hers from the breast. ..."
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