spoon

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  1. noun A utensil consisting of a small, shallow bowl on a handle, used in preparing, serving, or eating food.
  2. noun Something similar to this utensil or its bowl, as:
  3. noun A shiny, curved, metallic fishing lure.
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  • For some magicians or mentalists sometimes the spoon will bend or melt, sometimes it will not. —  Keith Barry does brain magic
  • But now she reached for her spoon, and smiled at him before she began to eat. —  EQMM, July 2005
  • No, the handle and the spoon are a couple millimeters too close here. —  twelve22
  • A whopping five dollars gets you a wristband good for one bowl and one spoon, which is in turn good for all-you-can-eat chili. —  Houstonist
  • « Beautiful invites and announcements, with a 10\% off coupon at the Nesting Shoppe In ancient times the spoon was a symbol of love. —  Mommies With Style
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mug ·  cup ·  utensil ·  fork ·  knife ·  saucer ·  tray ·  napkin ·  pan ·  bucket ·  jar ·  kettle

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spoon:   spoons ·  Spoon ·  spooned
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Etymologies (5)

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  1. Middle English, from Old English spōn, chip of wood.

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  1. from Middle English spoon, spone, spon, span, from Anglo-Saxon spōn, a splinter of wood, chip, = OFries. spōn, span = Dutch spaen, spaan = Middle Low German spōn, Low German spoon = Middle High German spān, German span, a thin piece of wood, shaving, chip, = Icelandic spānn, spōnn = Swedish spån = Danish spaan, a chip; root uncertain. Cf. span-new, spick-and-span-new.
  2. A variant or corruption of spoom.
  3. Usually assumed to be a particular use of spoon; but rather a back-formation from spoony, orig. in allusion to the use of a spoon in feeding an infant.
  4. from spoon, n.
 

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