spoon

Meanings

Noun

• An implement for eating or serving; a scooped utensil whose long handle is straight, in contrast to a ladle.
• An implement for stirring food while being prepared; a wooden spoon.
• A measure that will fit into a spoon; a spoonful.
• A wooden-headed golf club with moderate loft, similar to the modern three wood.
• An oar.
• A type of metal lure resembling the concave head of a tablespoon.
• A spoon excavator.
• A simpleton, a spooney.
• A safety handle on a hand grenade, a trigger.
• A metaphoric unit of energy available for daily activities.

Verb

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

Related

Narrower meaning words

• dessert spoon, dessertspoon
• egg spoon
• grapefruit spoon
• measuring spoon
• runcible spoon
• saltspoon
• soup spoon, soupspoon
• tablespoon
• teaspoon
• wooden spoon

Origin

• From Middle English spoon, spoune, spone, spon, from Old English spōn, from Proto-West Germanic *spānu, from Proto-Germanic *spēnuz, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)peh₂-.
• Cognate with Scots spun, spon, West Frisian spoen, Dutch spaan, German Span, Faroese spónur, Ancient Greek σφήν. Eclipsed non-native Middle English cuculer and coclear both ultimately borrowed from the Latin.
• The "unit of energy" semse was .
• Origin uncertain. Compare spoom.