spoon

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[edit] English

A table spoon
A fishing spoon

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[edit] Etymology 1

Middle English spone (“spoon, chip of wood”), from Old English spōn (“sliver, chip of wood”), from common Germanic *spē-nu-, derived from Proto-Indo-European *spē- (“length of wood”). Possible cognates include Greek σφήν (sphēn, “wedge”).

[edit] Noun

spoon (plural spoons)

  1. An implement for eating or serving; a scooped utensil whose long handle is straight, in contrast to a ladle.
  2. An implement for stirring food while being prepared; a wooden spoon.
  3. A measure that will fit into a spoon; a spoonful.
  4. (sports, archaic) A wooden-headed golf club with moderate loft, similar to the modern three wood.
  5. (fishing) A type of metal lure resembling the concave head of a table spoon.
  6. (dentistry, informal) A spoon excavator.
  7. (figuratively) A simpleton, a spooney.
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Terms derived from spoon (noun)
[edit] Translations
scooped utensil for eating (or serving)
measure that will fit into a spoon — see spoonful
metal lure for fishing

[edit] Verb

spoon (third-person singular simple present spoons, present participle spooning, simple past and past participle spooned)

  1. To serve using a spoon.
    Sarah spooned some apple sauce onto her plate.
  2. (intransitive, dated) To flirt; to make advances; to court, to interact romantically or amorously.
    • 1913, D. H. Lawrence, Sons and Lovers, Penguin 2006, p. 197:
      Do you think we spoon and do? We only talk.
  3. (intransitive, informal, of persons) To lie nestled closely together front-to-back, following the contours of ones' bodies, in a manner reminiscent of stacked spoons fitting within one another in a drawer. (Usually has a sexual connotation.)
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[edit] Translations
to serve using a spoon
to flirt
to lie together

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[edit] Etymology 2

Origin uncertain. Compare spoom.

[edit] Verb

spoon (third-person singular simple present spoons, present participle spooning, simple past and past participle spooned)

  1. (nautical) To turn to port and starboard erratically for short periods of time, in the manner of a sailing boat heading nearly directly into a shifting wind.
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sailing terminology

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