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spoon

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1. spoon - Noun

2. spoon - Verb

Meaning

See Spoom.

An implement consisting of a small bowl (usually a shallow oval) with a handle, used especially in preparing or eating food.

Anything which resembles a spoon in shape; esp. (Fishing), a spoon bait.

Fig.: A simpleton; a spooney.

To take up in, or as in, a spoon.

To act with demonstrative or foolish fondness, as one in love.

Source: Webster's dictionary

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The secret of happiness is to see all the marvels of the world, and never to forget the drops of oil on the spoon. Paulo Coelho

Spoon feeding in the long run teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon. E. M. Forster

Life is half delicious yogurt, half crap, and your job is to keep the plastic spoon in the yogurt. Scott Adams

The world is a pot, man but a spoon in it. Armenian Proverb

Beauty cannot be eaten with a spoon. Gypsy Proverb

Eat with the devil but give him a long spoon. Jamaican Proverb

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