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What (who) is spoon - definition

UTENSIL CONSISTING OF A SMALL SHALLOW BOWL, OVAL OR ROUND, AT THE END OF A HANDLE

Spoon (utensil); SPOON; Metal spoon; Handforging spoons; Serving spoon; Mixing spoon; Caviar spoons; Spoon-feed; 🥄

spoon

(spoons, spooning, spooned)

1.

A spoon is an object used for eating, stirring, and serving food. One end of it is shaped like a shallow bowl and it has a long handle.

He stirred his coffee with a spoon.

N-COUNT

2.

You can refer to an amount of food resting on a spoon as a spoon of food.

...tea with two spoons of sugar.

N-COUNT: usu N of n

3.

If you spoon food into something, you put it there with a spoon.

He spooned instant coffee into two of the mugs...

VERB: V n prep

4.

see also greasy spoon
, slotted spoon
, soup spoon
, wooden spoon

5.

If you think that someone has a lot of advantages because they have a rich or influential family, you can say that they have been born with a silver spoon in their mouth.

She was born with a silver spoon in her mouth and everything has been done for her.

PHRASE: Ns inflect

Spoon

·noun Fig.: A simpleton; a spooney.

II. Spoon ·vi ·see Spoom.

III. Spoon ·vt To take up in, or as in, a spoon.

IV. Spoon ·add. ·vi To fish with a spoon bait.

V. Spoon ·add. ·noun A wooden club with a lofted face.

VI. Spoon ·add. ·vt To catch by fishing with a spoon bait.

VII. Spoon ·add. ·vi In croquet, golf, ·etc., to spoon a ball.

VIII. Spoon ·vi To act with demonstrative or foolish fondness, as one in love.

IX. Spoon ·noun Anything which resembles a spoon in shape; ·esp. (Fishing), a spoon bait.

X. Spoon ·noun An implement consisting of a small bowl (usually a shallow oval) with a handle, used especially in preparing or eating food.

XI. Spoon ·add. ·vt In croquet, golf, ·etc., to push or shove (a ball) with a lifting motion, instead of striking with an audible knock.

spoon

n. a dessert; measuring; soup spoon; table-spoon ; teaspoon

Wikipedia

Spoon

A spoon is a utensil consisting of a shallow bowl (also known as a head), oval or round, at the end of a handle. A type of cutlery (sometimes called flatware in the United States), especially as part of a place setting, it is used primarily for transferring food to the mouth. Spoons are also used in food preparation to measure, mix, stir and toss ingredients and for serving food. Present day spoons are made from metal (notably flat silver or silverware, plated or solid), wood, porcelain or plastic. There are a wide variety of spoons that are made of a variety of materials and by different cultures for many different uses and foods.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spoon

Examples of use of spoon

1. Forster pointed out: ‘Spoon feeding in the long run teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon.‘ We should celebrate with our young people tomorrow.

2. Stop rubbing your spoon and with your right hand, reach out to help your friend, while keeping the bowl of the spoon in your left hand. 6.

3. As soon as the spoon is bent, resume your original position, holding the spoon in your left hand and rubbing it with your right.

4. Discreetly tip the bowl of the spoon up even further and as the handle moves upwards, you create the illusion that the spoon is bending.

5. Remove fruit with a slotted spoon and refrigerate until cool.