runcible spoon

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  1. noun A three-pronged fork, such as a pickle fork, curved like a spoon and having a cutting edge.

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  1. Coined by Edward Lear, perhaps alteration of rounceval, big woman, large pea, wart, monster, huge, from Roncevaux (Roncesvalles), site where giant bones were found.
 

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