Definitions for spoon

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spoon spoon

Spelling: [spoon]

IPA: /spun/

Spoon is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 7 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 9 points.

You can make 35 anagrams from letters in spoon (noops).

Definitions for 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. 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.

Idioms

1. born with a silver spoon in one's mouth, born into a wealthy family; having an inherited fortune:

verb (used with object)

1. to eat with, take up, or transfer in or as in a spoon.
2. to hollow out or shape like a spoon.
3. Games. to push or shove (a ball) with a lifting motion instead of striking it soundly, as in croquet or golf. to hit (a ball) up in the air, as in cricket.
4. 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:
5. Older Use. to show affection or love toward (someone) by kissing and caressing, especially in an openly sentimental manner.

verb (used without object)

1. (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:
2. Older Use. to show affection or love by kissing and caressing, especially in an openly sentimental manner.
3. Games. to spoon a ball.
4. Angling. to fish with a spoon.

Origin of spoon

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

Examples for spoon

Every man retired from the spoon, as Clennam did, cowed and baffled.

After touching the glass of the fountain to ensure it's cold enough, Cuco prepares my drink with spoon and sugar.

He had been examining a glass, a spoon and some other objects so quietly that I had not heard.

“The spoon was a tool for foreshadowing,” the Facebook page explains.

Jack Bates looked up from emptying the third spoon of sugar into his coffee.

As the song from Mary Poppins explains, “A spoon full of sugar helps the medicine go down.”

Boil them fast till they go all to pieces, and stir and mash them with a spoon.

Not from the sugar we spoon on our cereal or into our coffee.

Do not use a spoon, as that will not loosen the grains sufficiently.

In a small, lightly buttered pan over medium heat, spoon ¼-cupfuls of batter.