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Wiktionary

  1. n. A spoon made from wood, commonly used in food preparation.
  2. n. idiomatic An ironic prize for finishing last in a competition.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. adj. (Cambridge University, Eng.) In some American colleges, the lowest appointee of the junior year; sometimes, one especially popular in his class, without reference to scholarship. Formerly, it was a custom for classmates to present to this person a wooden spoon with formal ceremonies.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. a booby prize consisting of a spoon made of wood
  2. n. a spoon made of wood

Examples

  • “She was looking, Mariam said, forthe long wooden spoon she used to stir rice.”

    A Thousand Splendid Suns

  • “I rest the wooden spoon on a plate alongside the simmering pot of ribollita, turn off the burner, and go to let them in.”

    Simon & Schuster: The Kitchen Daughter

  • “Annie placed her wooden spoon on the night-stand, then put her small hands on his bare shoulders and gently pushed him flat.”

    Annie, Get Your Guy & Messing Around With Max

  • “So now the house began to people itself at the furthest edges of my senses: A wide-bottomedcook, her back to me, laid down the wooden spoon she was using to stir a pot and bustled away through a door.”

    Locked Rooms

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  1. booby prize
  1. woodenware
  1. spoon

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Words that contain this word in their definition

  1. long-spoon
  1. wedge
  1. short-spoon
  1. butter-ladle
  1. wooden spoon
  1. mid-spoon

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