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Spoon   /spun/   Listen
Spoon

noun
1.
A piece of cutlery with a shallow bowl-shaped container and a handle; used to stir or serve or take up food.
2.
As much as a spoon will hold.  Synonym: spoonful.
3.
Formerly a golfing wood with an elevated face.
verb
1.
Scoop up or take up with a spoon.
2.
Snuggle and lie in a position where one person faces the back of the others.  Synonym: smooch.



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"Spoon" Quotes from Famous Books



... find it if you can," said Mr. Coon. "I did not take those spoons and I do not know where the other spoon is, even if you do, ...
— Sandman's Goodnight Stories • Abbie Phillips Walker
... altogether a pleasant romance, as is probably the case with a good many romances in reality. Mr. Davis was destined to retain for a long time a vivid recollection of the first night which he spent in alternately feeding that baby with a spoon, and in walking the floor with it; and also to remember the sly glances which his parishioners only half hid from him when his ...
— King Midas • Upton Sinclair
... also, is opposite, and I often look on savory messes as they ripen on the fire—a stirring with a long iron spoon. This spoon is of such unusual length that even if one supped with the devil (surely the fearful adage cannot apply to our quiet street) he might lift his food in safety ...
— Chimney-Pot Papers • Charles S. Brooks
... others. The plant, when well developed, has an appearance not unlike some of the varieties of Cos lettuces; the head being round and full at the top, and tapering thence to the base, forming a tolerably regular, inverted cone. The leaves are erect, of a peculiar ashy or bluish-green hue, spoon-shaped, and clasp or cove over and around the head in the manner of a hood ...
— The Field and Garden Vegetables of America • Fearing Burr
... potato scramble several rows of potatoes were made across the room. Each player was given a large spoon, and whoever first took up all his or her potatoes in the spoons one at a time, and piled them up at the far end of the room, won the game. In this Charley Mason was successful, and won the prize—a pretty ...
— The Bobbsey Twins at School • Laura Lee Hope


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