 8 definitions found
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
spoon
noun
1: a piece of cutlery with a shallow bowl-shaped container and
a handle; used to stir or serve or take up food
2: as much as a spoon will hold; "he added two spoons of sugar"
[syn: {spoonful}]
3: formerly a golfing wood with an elevated face
verb
1: scoop up or take up with a spoon; "spoon the sauce over the
roast"
2: snuggle and lie in a position where one person faces the
back of the others [syn: {smooch}, {snog}]
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Spoon \Spoon\, verb (used without an object)
1. To fish with a spoon bait.
[Webster 1913 Suppl.]
2. In croquet, golf, etc., to spoon a ball.
[Webster 1913 Suppl.]
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Spoom \Spoom\ (sp[=oo]m), verb (used without an object) [Probably fr. spume foam. See
{Spume}.] (Naut.)
To be driven steadily and swiftly, as before a strong wind;
to be driven before the wind without any sail, or with only a
part of the sails spread; to scud under bare poles. [Written
also {spoon}.]
When virtue spooms before a prosperous gale,
My heaving wishes help to fill the sail. --Dryden.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Spoon \Spoon\, verb (used with an object)
1. To take up in, or as in, a spoon.
2. (Fishing) To catch by fishing with a spoon bait.
He had with him all the tackle necessary for
spooning pike. --Mrs. Humphry
Ward.
[Webster 1913 Suppl.]
3. In croquet, golf, etc., to push or shove (a ball) with a
lifting motion, instead of striking with an audible knock.
[Webster 1913 Suppl.]
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Spoon \Spoon\ (sp[=oo]n), verb (used without an object) (Naut.)
See {Spoom}. [Obs.]
We might have spooned before the wind as well as they.
--Pepys.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Spoon \Spoon\, noun [OE. spon, AS. sp[=o]n, a chip; akin to D.
spaan, G. span, Dan. spaan, Sw. sp[*a]n, Icel. sp['a]nn,
sp['o]nn, a chip, a spoon. [root]170. Cf. {Span-new}.]
1. An implement consisting of a small bowl (usually a shallow
oval) with a handle, used especially in preparing or
eating food.
''Therefore behoveth him a full long spoon
That shall eat with a fiend,'' thus heard I say.
--Chaucer.
He must have a long spoon that must eat with the
devil. --Shak.
2. Anything which resembles a spoon in shape; esp. (Fishing),
a spoon bait.
3. Fig.: A simpleton; a spooney. [Slang] --Hood.
4. (Golf) A wooden club with a lofted face. --Encyc. of
Sport.
[Webster 1913 Suppl.]
{Spoon bait} (Fishing), a lure used in trolling, consisting
of a glistening metallic plate shaped like the bowl of a
spoon with a fishhook attached.
{Spoon bit}, a bit for boring, hollowed or furrowed along one
side.
{Spoon net}, a net for landing fish.
{Spoon oar}. See under {Oar}.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Spoon \Spoon\, verb (used without an object)
To act with demonstrative or foolish fondness, as one in
love. [Colloq.]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
72 Moby Thesaurus words for "spoon":
administer, bail, bill and coo, blockhead, bucket, cluck, copulate,
cup, cutlery, dally, deal, deal out, decant, dimwit,
dining utensils, dip, disburse, dish, dish out, dish up, dispense,
disperse, dispose, distribute, dole, dole out, dope, flat silver,
flatware, fork, forks, give out, goon, hollow ware, ignoramus,
issue, knives, ladle, lollygag, make love, make out, measure out,
mete, mete out, moron, neck, numskull, parcel out, pass around,
pay out, pet, portion out, pour, scoop, shovel, silver,
silver plate, silverware, simpleton, smooch, spade, spoon out,
spoons, stainless-steel ware, sweet-talk, tablespoon, tableware,
teaspoon, toy, trifle, wanton, whisper sweet nothings
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