Definitions
Etymologies
- spoon + feed (Wiktionary)
Examples
“Southland because it does not "spoonfeed" the audience.”
“IMHO, The Motley Fool has never been designed to "spoonfeed", but rather to inspire an intelligent, educated approach to investments.”
“It's even the high-achieving students who've been deprived of the opportunity to develop curious minds by teachers who've been able to spoonfeed them to their grades.”
The Guardian: How do we make our schools fit to face the 21st century?
“IF you go and vote for McCain in the fall instead of Obama then you truly are a bunch of spoonfeed fools.”
Polls show Clinton stronger against McCain in crucial states
“Her job is to spoonfeed the masses a bunch of pre-packaged baby food.”
CNN's Candy Crowley: Not My Role To Judge Who The Bigger Liar Is
“America cannot spoonfeed Africa with foreign aid because what Africa need is a trading partner that is willing to give her concessions in matters of trade and finance.”
President Obama and Africa: The meaning of historic visit to Ghana
“I'm still hanging in there, but I'm really disappointed with the new direction that BSG and most of the rest of television is going these days (make it up as you go and act like you have an enormous backstory mythology, then spoonfeed viewers with only enough info to force them to watch next week).”
“Whats worse, they seem to have gone the way of many many other TV shows on these days - create a mystery, spoonfeed the viewers and dont ever really pay off with any of the dangling crumbs of mythology (because they themselves dont know the whole truth beyond the next 2-3 episodes).”
“Instead they spoonfeed the flock what THEY believe and what THEY want them to hear.”
“To just spoonfeed impressionable teenagers attending, as that is mostly what they are, a rigid dogma of a simplistic good guys/bad guys scenario on such a complex theme as the Arab/Israeli conflict is embarrassing for any educational establishment and must be damaging for the students themselves when they later discover a very different slant on what they have been previously "taught".”
On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘spoonfeed’.
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Just 'cause I like 'em, S
scrunch, solace, sabotage, saccade, sacerdotal, sacrilegious, sacristy, snappy, skew, steadfast, scowl, scorch and 781 more...
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slumry's Words
cattywampus, ingratiate, lackadaisical, exactitude, exfoliate, fulminate, circumnavigation, circuitous, debride, sidle, sequester, chicory and 1002 more...
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-oons (once of more than one syllable)
Originally this list was to contain multisyllabic words that end in "oon," but as you can see from the comments, all hell broke loose.
doubloon, poltroon, spittoon, patroon, dragoon, bassoon, platoon, typhoon, rangoon, maroon, pontoon, monsoon and 96 more...
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Words I'd Like to Use Someday
thundersnow, phantasmagoria, mercurial, chimerical, taciturn, paraclete, lapis lazuli, flay, guttersnipe, wonky, misanthrope, kestrel and 583 more...
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Sound or sequence
dulcimer, borborygmi, ecchymosis, scrivener, fustilugs, zarf, bawdyhouse, googleable, archfiend, gymkhana, cuckoopint, pilpul and 104 more...
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Umbersorrow
Intangible, anthropic.
States of being are listed on oofy.njiju, glark, deplore, afterlithe, tagmass, spuriosity, forkful, chelation, oding, ploat, botnet, quedeship and 477 more...
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ginnylev's Words
neuroplasticity, repudiate, scintilla, ruminate, tautology, ombudsman, exigent, filibuster, grace, ambidextrous, amends, disclosure and 623 more...
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special
euouae, facetiously, orange, cabbaged, billowy, spoonfeed, overnumerousnesses, honorificabilitud..., misconjugatedly, subcontinental, strengths, borschts and 5 more...
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Retroliterals
Words having the letters in reverse alphabetically order. Only words of six or more letters are listed here. For alphabetical order see Alphaliterals. See uoiea and yuoiea for words and phrases wit...
jigged, ligged, miffed, pigged, polked, polled, pollee, pommie, ponged, pongee, ponied, poohed and 75 more...
Tweets
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hernesheir The letters of this word are in reverse alphabetical order. Jan 2, 2011
bilby Death-defying, 'rb. Oct 18, 2008
whichbe This is a good idea for a list, yarbsy. Oct 17, 2008
yarb I like the 'ooee' in this. Oct 17, 2008