Spoon vs Spoof - What's the difference?
spoon | spoof |
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
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A hoax.
A light parody.
* 2000 , Stanley Green, Hollywood Musicals Year by Year ,
* 2003 , Margo Daly, Anne Dehne, Rough Guide to Australia ,
Nonsense.
(UK) A drinking game in which players hold up to three (or another specified number of) coins hidden in a fist and attempt to guess the total number of coins held.
Fake.
* 1998 , George McKay (editor), Notes on Contributors'', ''DiY Culture: Party & Protest in Nineties Britain ,
* 2004 , Paul Gravett, Manga: 60 Years of Japanese Comics ,
To gently satirize.
* 1971 , Harvey R. Deneroff, Harlow, Jean'', entry in Edward T. James, Janet Wilson James, Paul S. Boyer (editors), ''Notable American Women, 1607-1950: A Biographical Dictionary , Volume 2,
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To deceive.
(computing) To falsify.
* 2003 , Tao Peng, Christopher Leckie, Kotagiri Ramamohanarao, Detecting Distributed Denial of Service Attacks by Sharing Distributed Beliefs'', Rei Safavi-Naini, Jennifer Seberry (editors), ''Information Security and Privacy: 8th Australasian Conference, ACISP 2003, Proceedings , LNCS 2727,
* 2007 , Wes Kussmaul, The Sex Life of Tables: What Happens When Databases about You Mate ,
(Australian, New Zealand, slang) Semen.
As nouns the difference between spoon and spoof
is that spoon is an implement for eating or serving; a scooped utensil whose long handle is straight, in contrast to a ladle while spoof is a hoax or spoof can be (australian|new zealand|slang) semen.As verbs the difference between spoon and spoof
is that spoon is to serve using a spoon or spoon can be while spoof is to gently satirize or spoof can be (australian|new zealand|slang) to ejaculate, to come.As an adjective spoof is
fake.spoon
English
(wikipedia spoon)Etymology 1
From (etyl) .Noun
(en noun)- He must have a long spoon that must eat with the devil.
- (Hood)
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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Derived terms
* spooner * big spoon, little spoonSee also
* cutlery * ladle * silverwareEtymology 2
Origin uncertain. Compare spoom.Derived terms
* spoon-driftAnagrams
* 1000 English basic wordsspoof
English
Etymology 1
From the proprietary name of a game involving deception.American Heritage Dictionary
Noun
(wikipedia spoof) (en noun)page 177,
- On Broadway, where it opened in 1949, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes'' was a spoof''' of the madcap Twenties which gave Carol Channing her first starring role; on the screen, it was an up-to-date ' spoof of sex which gave Marilyn Monroe her first starring role in a musical.
page 331,
- The final piece of the country puzzle is found at the corner of Brisbane Street and Kable Avenue, where the Hands of Fame' cornerstone bears the palm-prints of more country greats. A glorious '''spoof , the Noses of Fame memorial, can be savoured over a beer at the ''Tattersalls Hotel on Peel Street.
Synonyms
* (parody) parody, satire, send-up / sendupAdjective
(-)page 300,
- His most recent art project, ‘Consuming Desire’, explored men?s relationship with pornography, using invisible art strategies (a spoof' sex shop and a ' spoof porn CD-ROM), media interventions (TV/ radio and press exposure), and therapeutic work with men addicted to pornography.
127,
- Below left: Despite appearances, Hajime Furukawa?s wacky I Don?t Like Friday'' was never aimed at children, but ran as a spoof sex-education English course in ''Business Jump .
Verb
(en verb)page 137,
- Her best film is generally considered to be Bombshell (1933), in which she spoofed her own career as a Hollywood sex goddess.
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page 224,
- However, MULTOPS assumes that packet rates between two hosts are proportional and the IP addresses are not spoofed .
page 83,
- In fact they are more important, because identities in the online world can be easily spoofed'.You may have heard that a digital certificate prevents such identity ' spoofing .