Meaning of SPOON
Pronunciation: | | spoon
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- [n] a piece of cutlery with a shallow bowl-shaped container and a handle; used to stir or serve or take up food
- [n] formerly a golfing wood with an elevated face
- [n] as much as a spoon will hold; "he added two spoons of sugar"
- [v] cuddling and kissing
- [v] scoop up or take up with a spoon; "spoon the sauce over the roast"
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| Synonyms: | | smooch, snog, spoonful |
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| See Also: | | container, containerful, cutlery, dessert spoon, eating utensil, immerse, make out, neck, plunge, remove, runcible spoon, soup spoon, soupspoon, sugar shell, sugar spoon, tablespoon, take, take away, tea maker, teaspoon, withdraw, wood, wooden spoon | |
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| Definition: | | Spoon Contemporary design is celebrated in an unusual book that is itself a beautifully designed object. more details ... |
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Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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\Spoon\, n. (Golf)
A wooden club with a lofted face. --Encyc. of Sport.
\Spoon\, v. t.
1. (Fishing) To catch by fishing with a spoon bait.
He had with him all the tackle necessary for
spooning pike. --Mrs. Humphry
Ward.
2. In croquet, golf, etc., to push or shove (a ball) with a
lifting motion, instead of striking with an audible knock.
\Spoon\, v. i.
1. To fish with a spoon bait.
2. In croquet, golf, etc., to spoon a ball.
\Spoon\ (sp[=oo]n), v. i. (Naut.)
See {Spoom}. [Obs.]
We might have spooned before the wind as well as they.
--Pepys.
\Spoon\, n. [OE. spon, AS. sp[=o]n, a chip; akin to D.
spaan, G. span, Dan. spaan, Sw. sp[*a]n, Icel. sp['a]nn,
sp['o]nn, a chip, a spoon. [root]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.
--Chaucer.
He must have a long spoon that must eat with the
devil. --Shak.
2. Anything which resembles a spoon in shape; esp. (Fishing),
a spoon bait.
3. Fig.: A simpleton; a spooney. [Slang] --Hood.
{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}.
\Spoon\, v. t.
To take up in, or as in, a spoon.
\Spoon\, v. i.
To act with demonstrative or foolish fondness, as one in
love. [Colloq.]
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Dream Dictionary |
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| Definition: | | Seeing a spoon in your dream indicates that you may need to give/receive nourishment. It may also mean that you feel you or someone is being given special treatment. |
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