English Pronunciation Noun wooden spoon plural wooden spoons
A spoon made from wood , commonly used in food preparation.
( idiomatic ) ( Cambridge University slang , dated ) junior optime who takes a university degree.
Macaulay
We submit that a wooden spoon of our day would not be justified in calling Galileo and Napier blockheads because they never heard of the differential calculus. ( US , university slang , dated ) appointee of the junior year; sometimes, one especially popular in his class, without reference to scholarship. Formerly, it was a custom for classmates to present to this person a wooden spoon with formal ceremonies.Derived terms Translations spoon made from wood
Chinese:
Cantonese: 木羹 ( muk6 gang1 )
Mandarin: 木勺 ( mùsháo )
Czech: vařečka f
Danish: træske c
Dutch: houten lepel m pollepel (nl)
Finnish: kapusta (fi) , puukauha (fi)
French: cuillère en bois (fr) f
German: Kochlöffel (de) m Holzlöffel (de) m
Hungarian: fakanál (hu)
Italian: cucchiaio di legno m mestolo di legno m
Japanese: 杓文字 ( しゃもじ, shamoji )
Norman: tchulyi en bouais f
Norwegian:
Bokmål: tresleiv m or f
Nynorsk: tresleiv f
(deprecated template usage ) {{trans-mid }}Polish: drewniana łyżka f kopyść (pl) f
Portuguese: colher de pau f
Russian: деревя́нная ло́жка f ( derevjánnaja lóžka ) ( for eating, Russian musical instrument or souvenir ) ; меси́лка (ru) f ( mesílka ) , меша́лка (ru) f ( mešálka ) , весёлка (ru) f ( vesjólka ) ( for cooking )
Scottish Gaelic: spàin-fhiodha f
Serbo-Croatian: kuhača (sh) f Cyrillic: варјача f мешаја f мешајица f
Roman: varjača (sh) f mešaja f mešejica f
Slovene: verecha f varjača f
Spanish: cuchara de madera f
Swedish: träsked (sv) c
Ukrainian: копи́стка f ( kopýstka )
prize for coming last in a competition
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