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  • noun dated Person who engages in kissing and petting.

Etymologies

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spoon +‎ -er

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Examples

  • Also, I am playful/outgoing because I use the straw to scoop the foam out of my cup (also known as a straw "spooner").

    qdiosa Diary Entry qdiosa 2002

  • Uploaded on March 30, 2009 just wondering if anyone has seen the photo on the Wisconsin DNR website showing a cougar caught in a tree by two men in spooner with there hounds.

    Wisconsin Cougar 2009

  • Category: lysander spooner, norm dicks, tea parties, twenty-dollar bill

    The woman with the twenty-dollar bill. - Moe_Lane’s blog - RedState 2009

  • Tax cuts-gas tax holidays; a silver spooner that rode somebody else's back to get to where they are clinging to populist pandering.

    Clinton loves America because of Tivo 2008

  • Sex with him cant be a Broadway opening every night, so you have to find yourself a good spooner.

    Become Your Own Matchmaker Patti Stanger with Lisa Johnson Mandell 2009

  • June 26, 2009 18:57pm can i borrow that bus for using at my school as one of our school buses the spooner

    Take a Ride on the AT-AT School Bus 2008

  • Kerry is another harvard cut-out silver spooner, A clone of Bush and his Ilk as far as I†™ m concerned.

    Think Progress » ThinkFast AM: June 27, 2006 2006

  • I read your cover story on the life and times of William F. Buckley with interest, noting what an alternate view of him might include: that he was a silver spooner with a golden tongue, a national spokesman for a losing ideology, and far off the mark on political reality.

    The Architect of Modern Conservatism 2008

  • There's Dan Humphrey (Penn Badgley), who must deal with the reality of dating his fantasy girl; Nate Archibald (Chace Crawford), the moneyed silver-spooner who struggles to break free from his rigid life of privilege, and Chuck Bass (Ed Westwick), the young rake who discovers, as rakes often do, that he's all soft on the inside.

    Why Men Love 'Gossip Girl' 2008

  • The album itself is pure spooner -- pretentious, thin and over-thought.

    Music (For Robots): April 2005 Archives 2005

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  • ..a morning

    as honeyed as England ever

    gifted a couple of spooners with.

    - Peter Reading, Hymn, from Nothing for Anyone, 1977

    June 26, 2008