Splade vs Spork - What's the difference?
splade | spork |
A spork that is sharp along one edge or both edges, enabling it to be used as a knife, a fork and a spoon.
2003}} * 2000, Chris Holden, Nutrition and Child Health [http://books.google.com/books?ie=UTF-8&hl=en&vid=ISBN070202421X&id=EUXbcmfcADYC&pg=PA155&lpg=PA155&sig=bVoSsfQXfuag_Q_HwnwaT6DoOlY] *: Cutlery: *: ? small, flat soft plastic spoons *: ? use of a ‘splade ’ instead of a fork *: ? cutlery with a large soft handle for easier grip * 2002, Morven F Ball, Developmental Coordination Disorder [http://books.google.com/books?vid=ISBN1843100908&id=C1yzHzIrgxMC&pg=PA38&lpg=PA38&sig=_LRarnsyr-a6oZswikqcT1NFOIE] *: A splade (see Figure 7.2) can be used if there is a problem with coordinating a knife and fork. * 2003, Stephen Downes, Advanced Australian Fare [http://books.google.com/books?ie=UTF-8&hl=en&vid=ISBN1865085812&id=kgJw0R_ZCtYC&pg=PA13&lpg=PA13&sig=B1-l-rz5pxid6Mr9eJoPbQFLuz0] *: At even the best dinner parties a splade (an implement combining a spoon, a fork, and a blunt blade) was used to load the food from lap to lip. An eating utensil shaped like a spoon, the bowl of which is divided into tines like those of a fork, and so has the function of both implements; some sporks have a serrated edge so they can also function as a knife.
To move or impale (food etc.) with a spork.
* 2002 , Olivia Goldsmith, Pen pals
* {{quote-news, year=2007, date=July 29, author=Erin McKean, title=Corpus, work=New York Times
, passage=Now, obviously, most of this sporking' is facetious, done purely for humorous intent (none of the eyeballs being ' sporked were in news reports), but the phenomenon of the weaponized spork is one that passed lexicographers and language researchers by until we saw the corpus evidence. }}
As nouns the difference between splade and spork
is that splade is a spork that is sharp along one edge or both edges, enabling it to be used as a knife, a fork and a spoon while spork is an eating utensil shaped like a spoon, the bowl of which is divided into tines like those of a fork, and so has the function of both implements; some sporks have a serrated edge so they can also function as a knife.As a verb spork is
to move or impale (food etc.) with a spork.splade
English
Noun
(wikipedia splade) (en noun)See also
* runcible spoon * spork * knorkQuotations
{{timeline, 1900s=2000, 2000s=20022003}} * 2000, Chris Holden, Nutrition and Child Health [http://books.google.com/books?ie=UTF-8&hl=en&vid=ISBN070202421X&id=EUXbcmfcADYC&pg=PA155&lpg=PA155&sig=bVoSsfQXfuag_Q_HwnwaT6DoOlY] *: Cutlery: *: ? small, flat soft plastic spoons *: ? use of a ‘splade ’ instead of a fork *: ? cutlery with a large soft handle for easier grip * 2002, Morven F Ball, Developmental Coordination Disorder [http://books.google.com/books?vid=ISBN1843100908&id=C1yzHzIrgxMC&pg=PA38&lpg=PA38&sig=_LRarnsyr-a6oZswikqcT1NFOIE] *: A splade (see Figure 7.2) can be used if there is a problem with coordinating a knife and fork. * 2003, Stephen Downes, Advanced Australian Fare [http://books.google.com/books?ie=UTF-8&hl=en&vid=ISBN1865085812&id=kgJw0R_ZCtYC&pg=PA13&lpg=PA13&sig=B1-l-rz5pxid6Mr9eJoPbQFLuz0] *: At even the best dinner parties a splade (an implement combining a spoon, a fork, and a blunt blade) was used to load the food from lap to lip.
Anagrams
* * *spork
English
(sporks) ("spork on Wikiquote")Noun
(en noun)Verb
(en verb)- She was sporking up her food with the kind of relish Jennifer had rarely seen at three star restaurants.
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