spoon

spoon
    n 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; "he added two spoons of sugar"
       [syn: {spoon}, {spoonful}]
    3: formerly a golfing wood with an elevated face
    v 1: scoop up or take up with a spoon; "spoon the sauce over the
         roast"
    2: snuggle and lie in a position where one person faces the back
       of the others [syn: {smooch}, {spoon}]
    

Spoon \Spoon\ (sp[=oo]n), v. i. (Naut.)
   See {Spoom}. [Obs.]
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         We might have spooned before the wind as well as they.
                                                  --Pepys.
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Spoon \Spoon\, n. [OE. spon, AS. sp[=o]n, a chip; akin to D.
   spaan, G. span, Dan. spaan, Sw. sp[*a]n, Icel. sp['a]nn,
   sp['o]nn, a chip, a spoon. [root]170. Cf. {Span-new}.]
   1. An implement consisting of a small bowl (usually a shallow
      oval) with a handle, used especially in preparing or
      eating food.
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            "Therefore behoveth him a full long spoon
            That shall eat with a fiend," thus heard I say.
                                                  --Chaucer.
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            He must have a long spoon that must eat with the
            devil.                                --Shak.
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   2. Anything which resembles a spoon in shape; esp. (Fishing),
      a spoon bait.
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   3. Fig.: A simpleton; a spooney. [Slang] --Hood.
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   4. (Golf) A wooden club with a lofted face. --Encyc. of
      Sport.
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   {Spoon bait} (Fishing), a lure used in trolling, consisting
      of a glistening metallic plate shaped like the bowl of a
      spoon with a fishhook attached.

   {Spoon bit}, a bit for boring, hollowed or furrowed along one
      side.

   {Spoon net}, a net for landing fish.

   {Spoon oar}. See under {Oar}.
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Spoom \Spoom\ (sp[=oo]m), v. i. [Probably fr. spume foam. See
   {Spume}.] (Naut.)
   To be driven steadily and swiftly, as before a strong wind;
   to be driven before the wind without any sail, or with only a
   part of the sails spread; to scud under bare poles. [Written
   also {spoon}.]
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         When virtue spooms before a prosperous gale,
         My heaving wishes help to fill the sail. --Dryden.
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Spoon \Spoon\, v. t.
   1. To take up in, or as in, a spoon.
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   2. (Fishing) To catch by fishing with a spoon bait.

            He had with him all the tackle necessary for
            spooning pike.                        --Mrs. Humphry
                                                  Ward.
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   3. In croquet, golf, etc., to push or shove (a ball) with a
      lifting motion, instead of striking with an audible knock.
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Spoon \Spoon\, v. i.
   To act with demonstrative or foolish fondness, as one in
   love. [Colloq.]
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Spoon \Spoon\, v. i.
   1. To fish with a spoon bait.
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   2. In croquet, golf, etc., to spoon a ball.
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72 Moby Thesaurus words for "spoon":
      administer, bail, bill and coo, blockhead, bucket, cluck, copulate,
      cup, cutlery, dally, deal, deal out, decant, dimwit,
      dining utensils, dip, disburse, dish, dish out, dish up, dispense,
      disperse, dispose, distribute, dole, dole out, dope, flat silver,
      flatware, fork, forks, give out, goon, hollow ware, ignoramus,
      issue, knives, ladle, lollygag, make love, make out, measure out,
      mete, mete out, moron, neck, numskull, parcel out, pass around,
      pay out, pet, portion out, pour, scoop, shovel, silver,
      silver plate, silverware, simpleton, smooch, spade, spoon out,
      spoons, stainless-steel ware, sweet-talk, tablespoon, tableware,
      teaspoon, toy, trifle, wanton, whisper sweet nothings