Added 9 October 2026
spoon
/spuːn/ noun
In Latin: cochleārium Wiktionary
noun Definition from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA). Pronunciation from Wiktionary, via Kaikki.org. More about spoon at Wordnik → Where our words come from →
verb
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To serve using a spoon; to transfer (something) with a spoon.
Sarah spooned some apple sauce onto her plate.
- 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 have sex in such a position.
verb
- Alternative form of spoom.
Origin
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)peH- (“chip, shaving, log, length of wood”). Cognate with Scots spun, spon (“spoon, shingle”), West Frisian spoen (“chip”), Dutch spaan (“chip, flinders”), German Span (“chip, flake, shaving”), Swedish spån (“chip, flake”), Norwegian Nynorsk spon (“chip, spoon”), Faroese spónur (“wood chip; spoon”), Ancient Greek σφήν (sphḗn, “wedge”)(though the connection to the Greek is likely impossible by modern reconstructions of PIE).
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