spoon

Speech parts

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

Synonyms

smooch spade buss dally dipper bale lade court date thimble serenade caress cuddle neck embrace
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Antonyms

carver Lama bam lam lance dirk
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Hypernyms

take remove neck withdraw container cutlery

Hyponyms

soup spoon soupspoon runcible spoon dessert spoon

Phrases with the word

silver spoon spoon sled born with a silver spoon in one's mouth there is no spoon gag me with a spoon born with a silver spoon in mouth

Anagrams

snoop opson

Examples

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

Close letter words and terms

spoolup spoolwood spoom spoon bait spoon bowl spoon bread