Category:Spoon

Spoon, v. i. (naut.)

Defn: see spoom. [obs.] We might have spooned before the wind as well as they. Pepys.

Spoon Spoon, n. Etym: [oe. spon, as. sp, a chip; akin to d. spaan, g. span, Dan. spaan, sw. spån, icel. spánn, spónn, a chip, a spoon. sq. Root170. 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. 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.

Spoon Spoon, v. t.

Defn: to take up in, a spoon.

Spoon Spoon, v. i.

Defn: to act with demonstrative or foolish fondness, as one in love. [colloq.]