little spoon
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Noun
[edit]little spoon (plural little spoons)
- (slang) The person whose back is touching the other person's front when spooning.
- 2011 February 24, Charlotte Knight, “You snooze, you lose”, in The Daily Titan, volume 89, number 13, California State University, Fullerton, page 4:
- So we would attempt to nap. But as he had a twin bed, space was limited, so I would insist he be the big spoon and I be the little spoon.
- 2012 July 12, “She's the little spoon: Snuggle up for $60”, in Metro, New York, page 2:
- "There are different kinds of cuddling positions, but I typically always start out spooning. And I am pretty small, so usually I'm the little spoon," Samuel said.
- 2012, Anna L. Beedes, "Finding fairies in moustaches", Capilano Courier (Capilano University), Volume 46, Number 11, 26 November 2012, page 8:
- The morning after, while demanding to be the little spoon he asked, “So you're not going to fall in love with me, are you?”
- For more quotations using this term, see Citations:little spoon.