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spoon
English
Pronunciation
- enPR: spo?on
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /spu?n/
- (General American) IPA(key): /spun/
- Rhymes: -u?n
Etymology 1
From Middle English spoon, spoune, spone, spon (“spoon, chip of wood”), from Old English sp?n (“sliver, chip of wood, shaving”), from Proto-Germanic *sp?nuz (“chip, flake, shaving”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)peh?- (“chip, shaving, log, length of wood”).
Cognate with Scots spun, spon (“spoon, shingle”), West Frisian spoen, Dutch spaan (“chip, flinders”), German Span (“chip, flake, shaving”), Faroese spónur (“wood chip; spoon”), Ancient Greek ???? (sph?n, “wedge”). Eclipsed non-native Middle English cuculer and coclear (“spoon”) both ultimately borrowed from the Latin.
The "unit of energy" semse was coined by writer, speaker and lupus patient advocate Christine Miserandino in 2003.
Noun
spoon (plural spoons)
- An implement for eating or serving; a scooped utensil whose long handle is straight, in contrast to a ladle.
- An implement for stirring food while being prepared; a wooden spoon.
- A measure that will fit into a spoon; a spoonful.
- (golf, archaic) A wooden-headed golf club with moderate loft, similar to the modern three wood.
- (slang) An oar.
- 1877, The Country (volumes 1-2, page 339)
- To this class college rowing offers no attractions or place, nor are they generally looked upon by the artists of the "spoons" as a desirable addition […]
- 1877, The Country (volumes 1-2, page 339)
- (fishing) A type of metal lure resembling the concave head of a tablespoon.
- (dentistry, informal) A spoon excavator.
- (figuratively, slang, archaic) A simpleton, a spooney.
- 1872, George Eliot, Middlemarch, Chapter 23
- To get all the advantages of being with men of this sort, you must know how to draw your inferences and not be a spoon who takes things literally.
- 1872, George Eliot, Middlemarch, Chapter 23
- (US, military) A safety handle on a hand grenade, a trigger.
- (slang) A metaphoric unit of energy available for daily activities.
Derived terms
Translations
Verb
spoon (third-person singular simple present spoons, present participle spooning, simple past and past participle spooned)
- To serve using a spoon; to transfer (something) with a spoon.
- (intransitive, dated) To flirt; to make advances; to court, to interact romantically or amorously.
- 1913, D.H. Lawrence, Sons and Lovers, chapter 7
- Do you think we spoon and do? We only talk.
- 1913, D.H. Lawrence, Sons and Lovers, chapter 7
- (transitive or intransitive, informal, of persons) To lie nestled front-to-back, following the contours of the bodies, in a manner reminiscent of stacked spoons.
- 1905 "If the Man in the Moon were a Coon"
- No roaming 'round the park at night / No spooning in the bright moonlight
- 1905 "If the Man in the Moon were a Coon"
- (tennis, golf, croquet) To hit (the ball) weakly, pushing it with a lifting motion, instead of striking with an audible knock.
- (intransitive) To fish with a concave spoon bait.
- (transitive) To catch by fishing with a concave spoon bait.
- 1888, Mrs. Humphry Ward, Robert Elsmere
- He had with him all the tackle necessary for spooning pike.
- 1888, Mrs. Humphry Ward, Robert Elsmere
Derived terms
Translations
See also
- cutlery
- ladle
- silverware
Etymology 2
Origin uncertain. Compare spoom.
Verb
spoon (third-person singular simple present spoons, present participle spooning, simple past and past participle spooned)
- Alternative form of spoom
- We might have spooned before the wind as well as they.
Derived terms
- spoon-drift
Translations
Anagrams
- Poons, no-ops, opson, poons, snoop
Middle English
Noun
spoon
- Alternative form of spone
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