Hitler vs Spoon - What's the difference?
hitler | spoon |
A surname of Austrian origin.
, dictator of Germany between 1933 and 1945.
* {{quote-book, year=1964, author=David Hugh Freeman, title=A Philosophical Study of Religion
, passage=The question makes no sense, unless the questioner is satisfied with such answers as: Death is evil, pain is evil, Hitler is evil.
* {{quote-book, year=1977, title=Providence and Evil, author=Peter Thomas Geach
, passage=Similarly, the description we give of God’s knowledge concerning Hitler' has to be different after '''Hitler'''’s death; it is manifest that there has been a change on ' Hitler ’s side, and that this, in view of the logic of omniscience, makes a difference to what we can truly say about God’s knowledge; ...
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* {{quote-book, year=2007, title=The God Delusion, author=Richard Dawkins
, passage=People do evil things (Hitler , Stalin, Saddam Hussein).
(derogatory) An unnecessarily dictatorial person.
* {{quote-book, year=1986, author=William Borman, title=Gandhi and Non-Violence
, passage=How does he support his position against the prima facie case in favor of the strongly counterintuitive claim that non-violence would necessarily defeat a Hitler ?}}
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An implement for eating or serving; a scooped utensil whose long handle is straight, in contrast to a ladle.
* Shakespeare
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.
A safety handle on a hand grenade, a trigger.
To serve using a spoon.
(dated) To flirt; to make advances; to court, to interact romantically or amorously.
* 1913 ,
(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
As nouns the difference between hitler and spoon
is that hitler is (derogatory) an unnecessarily dictatorial person while spoon is an implement for eating or serving; a scooped utensil whose long handle is straight, in contrast to a ladle.As a proper noun hitler
is a surname of austrian origin.As a verb spoon is
to serve using a spoon or spoon can be .hitler
English
(Adolf Hitler)Proper noun
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Derived terms
* Hitlerian * Hitlerish * Hitlerism * HitleriteNoun
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spoon
English
(wikipedia spoon)Etymology 1
From (etyl) .Noun
(en noun)- He must have a long spoon that must eat with the devil.
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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 spoonVerb
(en verb)- Sarah spooned some apple sauce onto her plate.
- Do you think we spoon and do? We only talk.
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