spoon

Significado (Inglés)

Noun

1. An implement for eating or serving; a scooped utensil whose long handle is straight, in contrast to a ladle.
2. An implement for stirring food while being prepared; a wooden spoon.
3. A measure that will fit into a spoon; a spoonful.
4. A wooden-headed golf club with moderate loft, similar to the modern three wood.
5. (slang) An oar.
6. A type of metal lure resembling the concave head of a tablespoon.
7. (informal) A spoon excavator.
8. (slang) A simpleton, a spoony.
9. A safety handle on a hand grenade, a trigger.
10. (slang) A metaphoric unit of finite physical and mental energy available for daily activities, especially in the context of living with chronic illness or disability.

Verb

1. To serve using a spoon; to transfer (something) with a spoon.
2. To flirt; to make advances; to court, to interact romantically or amorously.
3. (informal) To lie nestled front-to-back, following the contours of the bodies, in a manner reminiscent of stacked spoons.
4. To hit (the ball) weakly, pushing it with a lifting motion, instead of striking with an audible knock.
5. To fish with a concave spoon bait.
6. To catch by fishing with a concave spoon bait.

Verb

Alternative form of spoom

Sinónimos

ladle

scoop

teaspoon

spoonful

dipper

string

🪢

tablespoon

handle

key

🔑

smooch

spade

wooden ladle

spoon-bait

scraper

soup spoon

spatula

stir

tree

🌳

troll

🧌

woo

grab bucket

romance

small spoon

cochleare

brass ladle

fishing lure

hit ball up

spoon bait

spoon slicker

lift van

drop bucket

swinging hopper

cave

hoist bucket

coo

draw

excerpt

extract

fork

golf club

knife

🔪

large

minnow

scoop up

serve

shovel

skip

Pronúnciase como (IPA)

/spuːn/

Etimoloxía (Inglés)

Herdado de Middle English: spoon

Herdado de Old English: spōn

Relativo a escocés: spun

Relativo a frisón occidental: spoen

Relativo a neerlandés: spaan

Relativo a alemán: Span

Relativo a sueco: spån

Relativo a feroés: spónur

Relativo a grego antigo: σφήν

In summary

From Middle English spoon, spoune, spone, spon (“spoon, chip of wood”), from Old English spōn (“sliver, chip of wood, shaving”), from Proto-West Germanic *spānu, from Proto-Germanic *spēnuz (“chip, flake, shaving”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)peh₂- (“chip, shaving, log, length of wood”).
Cognate with Scots spun, spon (“spoon, shingle”), West Frisian spoen, Dutch spaan (“chip, flinders”), German Span (“chip, flake, shaving”), Swedish spån (“chip, flake”), Faroese spónur (“wood chip; spoon”), Ancient Greek σφήν (sphḗn, “wedge”)(though the connection to the Greek is likely impossible by modern reconstructions of PIE). Eclipsed non-native Middle English cuculer, coclear (“spoon”), from Old English cuculer, cuceler, cucler, borrowed from Latin cochlear (“spoon”).
The "metaphoric unit of personal energy" sense was coined by writer and disability advocate Christine Miserandino in 2003 (see spoon theory).

Frases

Looking down at the spoon he held , the boy saw that the oil was gone .