Spooner vs Spoon - What's the difference?
spooner | spoon | Derived terms |
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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Spoon is a derived term of spooner.
As nouns the difference between spooner and spoon
is that spooner is person who engages in kissing and petting 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 Spooner
is {{surname}.As a verb spoon is
to serve using a spoon.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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