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Definition of Spoonfed
1. aided in every way [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Spoonfed
Literary usage of Spoonfed
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Multiple Personality: An Experimental Investigation Into the Nature of Human by Boris Sidis, Simon Philip Goodhart (1905)
"She was tube-fed the greater part of the time, occasionally spoonfed, and
occasionally up and was helped about the ward; at no time would she make any ..."
2. English Coloured Books by Martin Hardie (1906)
"It must be remembered, however, that those were days when children were ' seen
and not heard,' were surveyed from distant Olympian heights, and spoonfed ..."
3. English Coloured Books by Martin Hardie (1906)
"It must be remembered, however, that those were days when children were 'seen.and not
heard,' were surveyed from distant Olympian heights, and spoonfed with ..."
4. Atlantic Classics (1918)
"Don't aim to go through life spoonfed; don't aim to get a soft seat. If you do,
you won't have your fair share of fun. There is no real fun in ease, ..."
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