wooden spoon Definition

spoon
noun

1. A metal, wooden or plastic utensil that has a handle with a round or oval shallow bowl-like part at one end and which is used for eating, serving or stirring food.
2. The amount a spoon will hold.

Example: takes three spoons of sugar in coffee
3. drug-taking slang
Two grams or one sixteenth of an ounce of heroin.

verb spooned, spooning

1. To lift or transfer (food) with a spoon.
intr
2. old use
To kiss and cuddle.
Example: You're never too old to spoon

Idiom: be born with a silver spoon in one's mouth

To be born into a family with wealth and/or high social standing.

Derivative: wooden spoon

See separate entry.

Etymology: Anglo-Saxon spon.

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wooden spoon
noun

1. A booby prize.

Etymology: Early 19c: from the wooden spoon presented to the person who came bottom in the mathematical tripos list at Cambridge University.