spoon
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Noun (3)spoons
- a piece of cutlery with a shallow bowl-shaped container and a handle; used to stir or serve or take up foodType of cutlery, containerKinds tablespoon, tea maker, sugar spoon, teaspoon, runcible spoon, dessert spoon, wooden spoon, soupspoon
- as much as a spoon will hold“he added two spoons of sugar”Synonyms: spoonfulType of containerful
- formerly a golfing wood with an elevated faceType of wood
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Translations
Noun scooped utensil for eating
- Spanish
- cuchara
- French
- cuillère
- German
- Löffel
- Italian
- cucchiaio
- Portuguese
- colher
- Turkish
- kaşık
- Russian
- ло́жка lóžka
- Arabic
- مِلْعَقَة milʕaqa
- Chinese
- 勺子 sháozi
- Japanese
- スプーン supūn
36 more languages
- Dutch
- lepel
- Polish
- łyżka
- Swedish
- sked
- Greek
- κουτάλι koutáli
- Korean
- 숟가락 sutgarak
- Indonesian
- sendok
- Vietnamese
- thìa
- Hungarian
- kanál
- Portuguese (PT)
- colher
- Chinese (Trad.)
- 湯匙 tāngchí
- Albanian
- lugë
- Breton
- loa
- Catalan
- cullera
- Corsican
- cuchjara
- Czech
- lžíce
- Danish
- ske
- Esperanto
- kulero
- Estonian
- lusikas
- Finnish
- lusikka
- Georgian
- კოვზი ḳovzi
- Hebrew
- כַּף kaf
- Icelandic
- skeið
- Kurdish
- kevçî
- Latvian
- karote
- Lithuanian
- šaukštas
- Malagasy
- sotro
- Norwegian
- skje
- Romanian
- lingură
- Scottish Gaelic
- spàin
- Serbo-Croatian
- žlica
- Slovak
- lyžica
- Slovenian
- žlica
- Swahili
- kijiko
- Walloon
- coyî
- Welsh
- llwy
- Yiddish
- לעפֿל lefl
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Webster's Dictionary (1913)
Nautical See Spoom. obsolete
We might have spooned before the wind as well as they.— Pepys.
Origin: OE. spon, AS. spōn, a chip; akin to D. spaan, G. span, Dan. spaan, Sw. spån, Icel. spánn, spónn, a chip, a spoon. √170. Cf. Span-new.
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.— Geoffrey Chaucer
He must have a long spoon that must eat with the devil.— William Shakespeare
2. Anything which resembles a spoon in shape; esp. Fishing, a spoon bait.
3. Fig.: A simpleton; a spooney. slang Thomas Hood
4. Golf A wooden club with a lofted face. Encyc. of Sport.
Spoon bait Fishing, 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.
1. To take up in, or as in, a spoon.
2. Fishing To catch by fishing with a spoon bait.
He had with him all the tackle necessary for spooning pike.— Mrs. Humphry Ward
3. In croquet, golf, etc., to push or shove (a ball) with a lifting motion, instead of striking with an audible knock.
To act with demonstrative or foolish fondness, as one in love. colloquial
1. To fish with a spoon bait.
2. In croquet, golf, etc., to spoon a ball.
Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), from GCIDE 0.54 · with additions: 1913 supplement