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Spoon   /spun/   Listen
Spoon

noun
1.
A piece of cutlery with a shallow bowl-shaped container and a handle; used to stir or serve or take up food.
2.
As much as a spoon will hold.  Synonym: spoonful.
3.
Formerly a golfing wood with an elevated face.
verb
1.
Scoop up or take up with a spoon.
2.
Snuggle and lie in a position where one person faces the back of the others.  Synonym: smooch.



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"Spoon" Quotes from Famous Books



... guisado is cooked," said she, after lifting a portion of the stew on a wooden spoon, and examining it; "let ...
— The White Chief - A Legend of Northern Mexico • Mayne Reid
... beads of perspiration stood on his forehead, but his voice sounded natural and controlled as he stood with cup and spoon ...
— Three People • Pansy
... and two leather sacks, containing a flannel shirt, warm trousers, and a woollen night-cap, spare ammunition, washing-rod, coffee, bread, sugar, pepper and salt, dried meat, a wooden bowl, and a tea-spoon. These sacks were carried on the shoulders of the natives, for which service I remunerated them with beads. They also carried my coffee-kettle, two calabashes of water, two American axes, and two sickles, which I used every evening to cut grass for ...
— The Art of Travel - Shifts and Contrivances Available in Wild Countries • Francis Galton
... "two slabs of granite cemented together," which covered a walled grave three feet square, an ancient kist-vaen. In it they found an earthenware vessel, containing some black earth and a leaden spoon. The spoon was given to Mr. Praed, of Trevethow; the kist-vaen was ...
— Chips From A German Workshop. Vol. III. • F. Max Mueller
... dey s'lected me out to be a housegirl an' den I slep' in de big house. All de little niggers et in de white folks' kitchen out'n er big tray whut wuz lak a trough. De cook put our victuals in de tray an' gib us a spoon an' pone er bread a piece an' made us set 'roun' dat tray an' eat all us wanted. 'Hit wuz good ...
— Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States - Volume II. Arkansas Narratives. Part I • Work Projects Administration


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