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  1. 1. v. i. See Spoom. Source: opted
  2. 2. n. An implement consisting of a small bowl (usually a shallow oval) with a handle, used especially in preparing or eating food. Source: opted
  3. 3. n. Anything which resembles a spoon in shape; esp. (Fishing), a spoon bait. Source: opted
  4. 4. n. Fig.: A simpleton; a spooney. Source: opted
  5. 5. v. t. To take up in, or as in, a spoon. Source: opted
  6. 6. v. i. To act with demonstrative or foolish fondness, as one in love. Source: opted
  7. 7. n. a piece of cutlery with a shallow bowl-shaped container and a handle; used to stir or serve or take up food Source: wordnet
  8. 8. n. as much as a spoon will hold Source: wordnet
  9. 9. n. formerly a golfing wood with an elevated face Source: wordnet
  10. 10. v. scoop up or take up with a spoon Source: wordnet
  11. 11. v. snuggle and lie in a position where one person faces the back of the others Source: wordnet
  12. 12. See Spoom. [Obs.] We might have spooned before the wind as well as they. Pepys. 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 bait (Fishing), a lure used in trolling, consisting of a glistening metallic plate shaped like the bowl of a spoon with a fishhook attached. -- Spoon bit, a bit for boring, hollowed or furrowed along one side. -- Spoon net, a net for landing fish. -- Spoon oar. see under Oar. To take up in, a spoon. To act with demonstrative or foolish fondness, as one in love. [Colloq.] Source: webster

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