Spooned vs Swooned - What's the difference?
spooned | swooned |
(spoon)
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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(swoon)
A faint.
* 1897 , (Bram Stoker), (Dracula) Chapter 21
An infatuation
(dated) to faint, to lose consciousness
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to be overwhelmed by emotion (especially infatuation)
As verbs the difference between spooned and swooned
is that spooned is (spoon) while swooned is (swoon).spooned
English
Verb
(head)Anagrams
*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 wordsswooned
English
Verb
(head)swoon
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Alternative forms
* swound (archaic)Noun
(en noun)- "I felt my strength fading away, and I was in a half swoon . How long this horrible thing lasted I know not, but it seemed that a long time must have passed before he took his foul, awful, sneering mouth away. I saw it drip with the fresh blood!"
Verb
(en verb)citation, genre= , publisher=The Gutenberg Project , isbn= , page= , passage= I dropped the vessel quickly to a lower level. Nor was I a moment too soon. The girl had swooned . }}