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Definition of Spoon

Spoon

A wooden club with a lofted face.

To catch by fishing with a spoon bait.

In croquet, golf, etc., to push or shove (a ball) with a lifting motion, instead of striking with an audible knock.

To fish with a spoon bait.

In croquet, golf, etc., to spoon a ball.

See Spoom.

An implement consisting of a small bowl (usually a shallow oval) with a handle, used especially in preparing or eating food.

Anything which resembles a spoon in shape; esp. (Fishing), a spoon bait.

Fig.: A simpleton; a spooney.

To take up in, or as in, a spoon.

To act with demonstrative or foolish fondness, as one in love.

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Spoon Quotations

If you can't tell a spoon from a ladle, then you're fat!
Demetri Martin

High School is like a spork: it's a crappy spoon and a crappy fork, so in the end it's just plain useless.
John Mayer

You wake up in the morning and you look at your old spoon, and you say to yourself, 'Mick, it's time to get yourself a new spoon.' And you do.
Mick Jagger

Spoon feeding in the long run teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon.
E. M. Forster

Gag me with a spoon!
Moon Unit Zappa

When you are dining with a demon, you got to have a long spoon.
Navjot Singh Sidhu

I was about five years old when I was eating soup in our kitchen, and as I was lifting the spoon towards my mouth, it bent and broke in half.
Uri Geller

I've never felt like I was born with a silver spoon at all, although I've felt like howling at the moon a lot of times!
Van Morrison

I'm incredibly boring; I had a very happy childhood. I never starved, nor did I have a silver spoon in my mouth. I'm one of those terribly middle-of-the-road, British middle class, South London gents.
Jude Law

If you try hard enough, you can bend the spoon; you can shift reality.
Christopher Meloni

There is no disgrace in working. There was no silver spoon around at the time I was born.
Anna Held

I was born with a plastic spoon in my mouth.
Pete Townshend

Sandwiches are wonderful. You don't need a spoon or a plate!
Paul Lynde

I once got a letter from a woman who told me she was 90. She said if she were 30 years younger, I would have had to watch out. I guess 60 seems really young when you're 90. She said she would eat me with a spoon.
David James Elliott

The rule in carving holds good as to criticism; never cut with a knife what you can cut with a spoon.
Charles Buxton

We're leaving the House to people who either were born with a silver spoon in their mouth... or couldn't get better jobs in the first place.
Jerry Lewis

They dined on mince, and slices of quince, Which they ate with a runcible spoon; And hand in hand, on the edge of the sand, They danced by the light of the moon.
Edward Lear

To be born in Wales, not with a silver spoon in your mouth, but, with music in your blood and with poetry in your soul, is a privilege indeed.
Brian Harris

Nutella. I dig my spoon in and eat it straight out of the jar. I can easily go through one a week.
Malin Akerman

Spoon the sauce over the ice cream. It will harden. This is what you have been working for.
Nicholson Baker

I kind of picked up the game at an early age. The way that other kids would learn what a fork or a spoon is.
Drew Bledsoe

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Spoon Translations

spoon in Afrikaans is lepel
spoon in Danish is ske
spoon in Dutch is pollepel
spoon in Finnish is lusikka
spoon in Italian is cucchiaio
spoon in Norwegian is skje
spoon in Portuguese is colher
spoon in Spanish is cuchara

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