Spoon

Etymology 1
spone: from spon:, from common  *spē-nu-, derived from. Possible cognates include Greek σφήν:.

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)  A type of metal lure resembling the concave head of a table spoon.
 * 6)  A spoon excavator.
 * 7)  A simpleton, a spooney.

Derived terms

 * spoonbill
 * spooner
 * spoon-feed, spoon-fed
 * dessert spoon, dessertspoon


 * gag me with a spoon
 * measuring spoon
 * runcible spoon
 * silver spoon


 * soup spoon, soupspoon
 * tablespoon
 * teaspoon
 * wooden spoon

Translations

 * Afrikaans:
 * Albanian:
 * Arabic: ملعقة
 * Egyptian Arabic:
 * Armenian: (gdal)
 * Azerbaijani: qaşıq
 * Bashkir:
 * Basque: goilare
 * Belarusian: (łyžka )
 * Bengali: চামচ
 * Bosnian: ,
 * Bulgarian: лъжица
 * Burmese: ဇ့န္း
 * Catalan: cullera
 * Chechen:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 匙子, 湯匙, 汤池, 調羹, 调羹,
 * Cornish:
 * Croatian: ,
 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:
 * Erzya: пенч (pench)
 * Esperanto:
 * Estonian:
 * Finnish:
 * French: ,
 * Gagauz:
 * Galician: culler
 * Georgian:
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Ancient: κοχλιάριον
 * Gujarati: ચમચો
 * Hebrew:
 * Hindi:, चम्चा
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic:
 * Ido:
 * Inuktitut: ᐊᓘᑦ
 * Irish:
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:
 * Kalmyk:
 * Karachay-Balkar:
 * Karakalpak:
 * Kazakh:
 * Khakas:
 * Khmer: ស្លាបព្រា
 * Komi: пань (panj)
 * Korean: 숟가락, 스푼
 * Kumyk:
 * Kumyk:


 * Kurdish:
 * Kyrgyz:
 * Lao:
 * Latin: coclearium
 * Latvian: karote
 * Lithuanian:
 * Luhya:
 * Luo:
 * Macedonian: лажица
 * Malay:
 * Malayalam: സ്പൂണ്‍, കരണ്ടി, തവി
 * Maltese: mgħarfa
 * Mongolian: халбага
 * Norwegian: skei or skje
 * Old English:
 * Old Frisian: spon
 * Old Irish:
 * Persian: ,
 * Polish: łyżka, łyżeczka
 * Portuguese:
 * Rohingya: camic
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:, ложечка
 * Santali:
 * Scottish Gaelic: spàin
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: кашика, жлица, лижка, лaжица
 * Roman: kašika, žlica, ližka, lažica
 * Slovak: lyžica, lyžička (1); varecha, vareška  (2)
 * Slovene:
 * Sotho: kgaba
 * Southern Altai:
 * Spanish:
 * Swahili:
 * Swedish:
 * Tagalog:
 * Tamil: கரண்டி (karaṇḍi)
 * Tatar:
 * Telugu: చెమ్చా (chemchaa)
 * Thai:
 * Turkish:
 * Turkmen:
 * Tuvan:
 * Ukrainian:
 * Urdu: چمچ, چمچہ
 * Uyghur: قوشۇق
 * Uzbek: qoshiq
 * Vietnamese:
 * Welsh:
 * West Frisian: leppel, spoen (the latter is considered antiquated and usually refers to a chip of wood)
 * Yakut: ,
 * Yiddish: לעפֿל
 * Yiddish: לעפֿל


 * Catalan:
 * Greek: ,
 * Icelandic:


 * Romanian:
 * Russian: блесна
 * Swahili:
 * Telugu: గాలము

Verb

 * 1)  To flirt; to make advances; to court, to interact romantically or amorously.
 * 2) * 1913, D. H. Lawrence, Sons and Lovers, Penguin 2006, p. 197:
 * Do you think we spoon and do? We only talk.
 * 1)  To lie nestled closely together front-to-back, following the contours of ones' bodies, in a manner reminiscent of stacked spoons fitting within one another in a drawer. (Usually has a sexual connotation.)

Derived terms

 * spooner

Translations

 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:


 * Greek: ερωτοτροπώ
 * Swahili:


 * Afrikaans: lepellê


 * Swahili:

Etymology 2
Origin uncertain. Compare spoom:.

Verb

 * 1)  To turn to port and starboard erratically for short periods of time, in the manner of a sailing boat heading nearly directly into a shifting wind.

Translations

 * Dutch: laveren
 * Spanish:


 * Swahili:
 * Telugu: లంగరు

Anagrams

 * no-ops
 * snoop

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