spoon Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun a piece of cutlery with a shallow bowl-shaped container and a handle; used to stir or serve or take up food
  2. noun as much as a spoon will hold
    spoonful.
    • he added two spoons of sugar
  3. noun formerly a golfing wood with an elevated face
  4. verb scoop up or take up with a spoon
    • spoon the sauce over the roast
  5. verb snuggle and lie in a position where one person faces the back of the others
    smooch.

WordNet

Spoon intransitive verb
Definitions
  1. (Naut.) See Spoom. Obs.
    We might have spooned before the wind as well as they. Pepys.
Spoon noun
Etymology
OE. spon, AS. spn, a chip; akin to D. spaan, G. span, Dan. spaan, Sw. spån, Icel. spánn, spónn, a chip, a spoon. Cf. Span-new.
Definitions
  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 transitive verb
Definitions
  1. To take up in, a spoon.
Spoon intransitive verb
Definitions
  1. To act with demonstrative or foolish fondness, as one in love. Colloq.

Webster 1913