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spoon

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–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. a spoonful.
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.
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.
–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. Informal. to show affection or love toward by kissing and caressing, esp. in an openly sentimental manner.
–verb (used without object)
11. Informal. to show affection or love by kissing and caressing, esp. in an openly sentimental manner.
12. Games. to spoon a ball.
13. Angling. to fish with a spoon.
—Idiom
14. 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:
bef. 900; ME; OE spōn; c. LG spon, G Span chip, ON spōnn; akin to Gk sphn wedge

Related forms:
spoonless, adjective
spoonlike, adjective
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spoon   (spōōn)   
n.  

  1. A utensil consisting of a small, shallow bowl on a handle, used in preparing, serving, or eating food.

  2. Something similar to this utensil or its bowl, as:

    1. A shiny, curved, metallic fishing lure.

    2. A paddle or an oar with a curved blade.

  3. Sports The three wood golf club.

v.   spooned, spoon·ing, spoons

v.   tr.

  1. To lift, scoop up, or carry with or as if with a spoon.

  2. Sports & Games To shove or scoop (a ball) into the air.

v.   intr.

  1. To fish with a spoon lure.

  2. Sports & Games To give a ball an upward scoop.

  3. Informal To engage in amorous behavior, such as kissing or caressing.


[Middle English, from Old English spōn, chip of wood.]
spoon'a·ble adj.
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
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Slang Dictionary
cokespoon

and (flake) spoon
  1. n.
    a small spoon used to carry powdered cocaine to a nostril. (Drugs.) : The principal wrote a letter to Mrs. Simpson telling her that Jimmy had brought a cokespoon to school. , She used an old-fashioned flake spoon right until she died.
Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition.
Copyright 2007. Published by McGraw Hill.
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spoon

  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.
Copyright 2007. Published by McGraw Hill.
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Word Origin & History

spoon  (n.)
O.E. spon "chip, shaving," from P.Gmc. *spænuz (cf. O.N. spann, sponn "chip, splinter," Swed. spån "a wooden spoon," O.Fris. spon, M.Du. spaen, Du. spaan, O.H.G. span, Ger. Span "chip, splinter"), from PIE *spe- "long, flat piece of wood" (cf. Gk. sphen "wedge"). The meaning "eating utensil" is c.1300 in Eng., probably from O.N. sponn, which meant "spoon" as well as "chip, tile" (development of the "eating utensil" sense is specific to M.E. and Scand., though M.L.G. spon also meant "wooden spatula"). Spoon-feed is from 1615; fig. sense is attested by 1864. To be born with a silver spoon in one's mouth is from 1801. Spoonbill is attested from 1678, after Du. lepelaar (from lepel "spoon").

spoon  (v.)
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, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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Idioms & Phrases

spoon

see born with a silver spoon; greasy spoon.

The American Heritage® Dictionary of Idioms by Christine Ammer.
Copyright © 1997. Published by Houghton Mifflin.
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Encyclopedia

spoon

an implement consisting of a small, shallow, bowl-shaped receptacle supported by a handle, used for eating, serving, and cooking foods. Spoons, together with forks, are known as flatware (q.v.).

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