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drink | spoon |

As nouns the difference between drink and spoon

is that drink is drink (alcoholic) while spoon is an implement for eating or serving; a scooped utensil whose long handle is straight, in contrast to a ladle.

As a verb spoon is

to serve using a spoon or spoon can be .

drink

English

Alternative forms

* drinck (obsolete)

Etymology 1

From (etyl) (m), from (etyl) .

Verb

  • (ambitransitive) To consume (a liquid) through the mouth.
  • * Spenser
    • There lies she with the blessed gods in bliss, / There drinks the nectar with ambrosia mixed.
  • * Thackeray
    • the bowl of punch which was brewed and drunk in Mrs. Betty's room
  • *
    • , title=The Mirror and the Lamp , chapter=2 citation , passage=That the young Mr. Churchills liked—but they did not like him coming round of an evening and drinking weak whisky-and-water while he held forth on railway debentures and corporation loans. Mr. Barrett, however, by fawning and flattery, seemed to be able to make not only Mrs. Churchill but everyone else do what he desired.}}
  • To consume alcoholic beverages.
  • * Thackeray
    • Bolingbroke always spoke freely when he had drunk freely.
  • * Shakespeare
    • I drink to the general joy of the whole table, / And to our dear friend Banquo.
  • To take in (a liquid), in any manner; to suck up; to absorb; to imbibe.
  • * Dryden
    • Let the purple violets drink the stream.
  • To take in; to receive within one, through the senses; to inhale; to hear; to see.
  • * Tennyson
    • to drink the cooler air
  • * Shakespeare
    • My ears have not yet drunk a hundred words / Of that tongue's utterance.
  • * Alexander Pope
    • Let me drink delicious poison from thy eye.
  • (obsolete) To smoke, as tobacco.
  • * Taylor (1630)
    • And some men now live ninety years and past, / Who never drank tobacco first nor last.
    Synonyms
    * gulp, imbibe, quaff, sip, see also * (consume alcoholic beverages) drink alcohol
    Derived terms
    * drinkable * drink and drive * drinker * drinking * drink like a fish * drink under the table * drink up
    Related terms
    * drunken, drunk

    Etymology 2

    From (etyl) (m), from (etyl) . Compare (etyl) (m).

    Noun

  • A beverage.
  • A (served) alcoholic beverage.
  • The action of drinking, especially with the verbs take'' or ''have .
  • A type of beverage (usually mixed).
  • Alcoholic beverages in general.
  • * {{quote-book, year=1935, author= George Goodchild
    • , title=Death on the Centre Court, chapter=1 , passage=She mixed furniture with the same fatal profligacy as she mixed drinks , and this outrageous contact between things which were intended by Nature to be kept poles apart gave her an inexpressible thrill.}}
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  • Any body of water.
  • (uncountable, archaic) Drinks in general; something to drink
  • * , (w) 25:35:
    • For I was an hungred, and ye gave me meat: I was thirsty, and ye gave me drink
    Usage notes
    * A plainer term than more elevated term (beverage). Beverage is of French origin, while drink is of Old English origin, and this stylistic difference by origin is common; see (list of English words with dual French and Anglo-Saxon variations).
    Synonyms
    * (served beverage) beverage, see also * (served alcoholic beverage) beverage, see also * (action of drinking) gulp, sip, swig * (type of beverage) beverage * (alcoholic beverages in general) alcohol
    Derived terms
    * the big drink * drink-driver * drink-driving * drive to drink * in the drink * straw that stirs the drink * take to drink

    spoon

    English

    (wikipedia spoon)

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) .

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • An implement for eating or serving; a scooped utensil whose long handle is straight, in contrast to a ladle.
  • * Shakespeare
    • He must have a long spoon that must eat with the devil.
  • An implement for stirring food while being prepared; a wooden spoon.
  • A measure that will fit into a spoon; a spoonful.
  • (sports, archaic) A wooden-headed golf club with moderate loft, similar to the modern three wood.
  • (fishing) A type of metal lure resembling the concave head of a table spoon.
  • (dentistry, informal) A spoon excavator.
  • (figuratively, slang, archaic) A simpleton, a spooney.
    • (Hood)
  • A safety handle on a hand grenade, a trigger.
    • Derived terms
    * spoonbill * spooner * spoon bread * spoon-feed, spoon-fed * dessert spoon, dessertspoon * gag me with a spoon * measuring spoon * runcible spoon * silver spoon * soup spoon, soupspoon * tablespoon * teaspoon * wooden spoon

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To serve using a spoon.
    • Sarah spooned some apple sauce onto her plate.
  • (dated) To flirt; to make advances; to court, to interact romantically or amorously.
  • * 1913 ,
    • Do you think we spoon and do? We only talk.
  • (transitive, or, intransitive, slang, of persons) To lie nestled front-to-back, following the contours of the bodies, in a manner reminiscent of stacked spoons.
  • (tennis) To hit weakly
  • * {{quote-news
    • , year=2012 , date=June 28 , author=Jamie Jackson , title=Wimbledon 2012: Lukas Rosol shocked by miracle win over Rafael Nadal , work=the Guardian citation , page= , passage=Rosol spurned the chance to finish off a shallow second serve by spooning into the net, and a wild forehand took the set to 5-4, with the native of Prerov required to hold his serve for victory.}}
    Derived terms
    * spooner * big spoon, little spoon

    See also

    * cutlery * ladle * silverware

    Etymology 2

    Origin uncertain. Compare spoom.

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • * Samuel Pepys
    • We might have spooned before the wind as well as they.
    Derived terms
    * spoon-drift

    Anagrams

    * 1000 English basic words