| NOUN | artifact | spoon | a piece of cutlery with a shallow bowl-shaped container and a handle |
|---|---|---|---|
| quantity | spoon, spoonful | as much as a spoon will hold | |
| artifact | spoon | formerly a golfing wood with an elevated face | |
| VERB | contact | spoon | scoop up or take up with a spoon |
| contact | spoon, smooch | snuggle and lie in a position where one person faces the back of the others |
| Sounds | spuw'n | |
|---|---|---|
| Rhymes | afternoon ... Witherspoon: 64 rhymes with uwn... | |
| Meaning | A piece of cutlery with a shallow bowl-shaped container and a handle; used to stir or serve or take up food. | |
|---|---|---|
| Narrower | dessert spoon | A spoon larger / larger than a teaspoon and smaller than a tablespoon |
| runcible spoon | A fork-like spoon with a cutting edge | |
| soupspoon, soup spoon | A spoon with a rounded bowl for eating soup | |
| sugar spoon, sugar shell | A spoon for serving sugar | |
| tablespoon | A spoon larger / larger than a dessert spoon | |
| tea maker | A covered spoon with perforations | |
| teaspoon | A small / small spoon used for stirring tea or coffee | |
| wooden spoon | A spoon made of wood | |
| Broader | container | Any object that can be used to hold things (especially a large metal boxlike object of standardized dimensions that can be loaded from one form of transport to another) |
| cutlery, eating utensil | tableware implements for cutting and eating food | |
| Spanish | cuchara | |
| Catalan | cullera | |
| Verbs | spoon | scoop up or take up with a spoon |
| Meaning | As much as a spoon will hold. | |
|---|---|---|
| Example | "he added two spoons of sugar" | |
| Synonym | spoonful | |
| Broader | containerful | The quantity that a container will hold |
| Spanish | cucharada | |
| Catalan | cullerada, cullera | |
| Verbs | spoon | scoop up or take up with a spoon |
| Meaning | formerly a golfing wood with an elevated face. | |
|---|---|---|
| Broader | wood | A golf club with a long shaft used to hit long shots |
| Meaning | scoop up or take up with a spoon. | |
|---|---|---|
| Pattern | Somebody ----s something; Somebody ----s something PP | |
| Model | The women spoon water into the bowl | |
| Example | "spoon the sauce over the roast" | |
| Entails | immerse, plunge | thrust or throw into |
| Broader | remove, take, take away, withdraw | Remove something concrete, as by lifting, pushing, or taking off, or remove something abstract |
| Spanish | cucharear | |
| Catalan | agafar amb la cullera | |
| Nouns | spoon | a piece of cutlery with a shallow bowl-shaped container and a handle |
| spoon | as much as a spoon will hold | |
| Meaning | snuggle and lie in a position where one person faces the back of the others. | |
|---|---|---|
| Pattern | Somebody ----s | |
| Synonym | smooch | |
| Broader | neck, make out | kiss, embrace, or fondle with sexual passion |
| Spanish | besuquearse | |
| Catalan | petonejar-se | |
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