Synonyms

spoon bait

[spoon] Origin

spoon

[spoon]
noun
1.
a utensil for use in eating, stirring, measuring, ladling, etc., consisting of a small, shallow bowl with a handle.
2.
any of various implements, objects, or parts resembling or suggesting this.
3.
4.
Also called spoon bait. Angling. a lure used in casting or trolling for fish, consisting of a bright spoon-shaped piece of metal or the like, swiveled above one or more fishhooks, and revolving as it is drawn through the water.
5.
Also called number three wood. Golf. a club with a wooden head whose face has a greater slope than the brassie or driver, for hitting long, high drives from the fairway.
EXPAND
6.
a curved piece projecting from the top of a torpedo tube to guide the torpedo horizontally and prevent it from striking the side of the ship from which it was fired.
COLLAPSE
verb (used with object)
7.
to eat with, take up, or transfer in or as in a spoon.
8.
to hollow out or shape like a spoon.
9.
Games.
a.
to push or shove (a ball) with a lifting motion instead of striking it soundly, as in croquet or golf.
b.
to hit (a ball) up in the air, as in cricket.
10.
to nestle in close contact with (another), as when both are lying on their sides with their knees drawn up, so that the back of one person is tucked into the front of the other, like the bowls of two spoons: He moved over and spooned her, pressing himself gently against her warm back as she slept.
11.
Older Use. to show affection or love toward (someone) by kissing and caressing, especially in an openly sentimental manner.

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Spoon bait is always a great word to know.
So is zedonk. Does it mean:
a chattering or flighty, light-headed person.
the offspring of a zebra and a donkey.
verb (used without object)
12.
(of two people) to nestle in close contact with one another, as when both are lying on their sides with their knees drawn up, the back of one person tucked into the front of the other like the bowls of two spoons: They spooned without shifting position the whole night through.
13.
Older Use. to show affection or love by kissing and caressing, especially in an openly sentimental manner.
14.
Games. to spoon a ball.
15.
Angling. to fish with a spoon.
16.
born with a silver spoon in one's mouth, born into a wealthy family; having an inherited fortune: She was born with a silver spoon in her mouth and never worked a day in her life.

Origin:
before 900; Middle English; Old English spōn; cognate with Low German spon, German Span chip, Old Norse spōnn; akin to Greek sphḗn wedge

spoon·less, adjective
spoon·like, adjective
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Word Origin & History

spoon
1715, "to dish out with a spoon," from spoon (n.). The meaning "court, flirt sentimentally" is first recorded 1831, from slang noun spoon "simpleton" (1799), a fig. use based on the notion of shallowness.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2010 Douglas Harper
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spoon definition


  1. in.
    to neck and pet. : They like to go out and spoon under the stars.

  2. Go to cokespoon, (flake) spoon. :
Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition.
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