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Meaning of SPOON

Pronunciation:  spoon

WordNet Dictionary
 
 Definition: 
  1. [n]  a piece of cutlery with a shallow bowl-shaped container and a handle; used to stir or serve or take up food
  2. [n]  formerly a golfing wood with an elevated face
  3. [n]  as much as a spoon will hold; "he added two spoons of sugar"
  4. [v]  cuddling and kissing
  5. [v]  scoop up or take up with a spoon; "spoon the sauce over the roast"
 
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 Synonyms: smooch, snog, spoonful
 
 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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Webster's 1913 Dictionary
 
 Definition: 
  1. \Spoon\, n. (Golf)
    A wooden club with a lofted face. --Encyc. of Sport.
    
  2. \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.
    
  3. \Spoon\, v. i.
    1. To fish with a spoon bait.
    2. In croquet, golf, etc., to spoon a ball.
    
  4. \Spoon\ (sp[=oo]n), v. i. (Naut.)
    See {Spoom}. [Obs.]
          We might have spooned before the wind as well as they.
                                                   --Pepys.
    
  5. \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}.
    
  6. \Spoon\, v. t.
    To take up in, or as in, a spoon.
    
  7. \Spoon\, v. i.
    To act with demonstrative or foolish fondness, as one in
    love. [Colloq.]
    
 
Dream Dictionary
 
 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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