different between splade vs splake

English

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -e?d

Etymology

Perhaps from spoon or spork and blade.

Noun

splade (plural splades)

1. A spork that is sharp along one edge or both edges, enabling it to be used as a knife, a fork and a spoon.

See also

• runcible spoon
• spork
• knork

Quotations

• 2000, Chris Holden, Nutrition and Child Health [1]

  Cutlery:

  ? small, flat soft plastic spoons

  ? use of a ‘splade’ instead of a fork

  ? cutlery with a large soft handle for easier grip

• 2002, Morven F Ball, Developmental Coordination Disorder [2]

  A splade (see Figure 7.2) can be used if there is a problem with coordinating a knife and fork.

• 2003, Stephen Downes, Advanced Australian Fare [3]

  At even the best dinner parties a splade (an implement combining a spoon, a fork, and a blunt blade) was used to load the food from lap to lip.

Anagrams

• lapsed, padles, pedals, pleads, pleas'd

English

Etymology

Blend of speckled +? lake

Noun

splake (plural splakes)

1. A hybrid fish derived from a male brook trout and a female lake trout

   Synonym: wendigo

Translations

Anagrams

• Lepaks, lepaks