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Spoon

noun

A piece of cutlery with a shallow bowl-shaped container and a handle; used to stir or serve or take up food.

As much as a spoon will hold. Synonym: spoonful.

Formerly a golfing wood with an elevated face.

verb

Scoop up or take up with a spoon.

Snuggle and lie in a position where one person faces the back of the others. Synonym: smooch.

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... upper lip is helmeted, or hooked—"galeatum est, vel falcatum." In the second, the upper lip is excavated like a spoon—"cochlearis instar est excavatum." In the third the upper lip is erect. And in the fourth there is ...

— Proserpina, Volume 2 - Studies Of Wayside Flowers • John Ruskin

... James, and the soup in his spoon dribbled over, "you'll have a good allowance; but you must ...

— Forsyte Saga • John Galsworthy

... grown cold, and a slight coating of grease had formed over the top. Marie-Anne took the spoon, skimmed the bouillon, and then stirred it up for some time, to divide the ...

— The Honor of the Name • Emile Gaboriau

... on the table sat a flat clay-made plate that was to do service for many needs. Beside the plate were the birchbark cup to drink water from, a birchbark napkin ring that held a paper napkin, and the usual knife, fork and spoon. ...

— Girl Scouts in the Adirondacks • Lillian Elizabeth Roy

... if I was you. Think what it would be to live with it all the time. You look in the black pocketbook inside my handbag and take a dime and go downtown and get an ice-cream soda. That'll make you feel better. Thor can have a little of the ice-cream if you feed it to him with a spoon. He likes it, don't you, son?" She stooped to wipe his chin. Thor was only six months old and inarticulate, but it was quite true that he ...

— Song of the Lark • Willa Cather

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