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Definition: Wooden Spoon |
Wooden SpoonNoun1. (British) a booby prize consisting of a spoon made of wood. 2. A spoon made of wood. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
| Domain | Definition |
Literature | Wooden Spoon The last of the honour men- i.e. of the Junior Optimes, in the Cambridge University. Sometimes two or more "last" men are bracketed together, in which case the group is termed the spoon bracket. It is said that these men are so called because in days of yore they were presented with a wooden spoon, while the other honour men had a silver or golden one, a spoon being the usual prix de mèrite instead of a medal. (See Wooden Wedge. ). Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
Slang in 1811 | WOODEN SPOON. (Cambridge.) The last junior optime. See WRANGLER, OPTIME. Source: 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue. |
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| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Ignoramus | Noun: ignoramus, dunce; wooden spoon; no scholar. |
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Crosswords: Wooden Spoon |
| English words defined with "wooden spoon": bruise. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "wooden spoon": OPTIME ♦ Wooden Wedge. (references) |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | A dark grey collander sits on a grey marble table surrounded by a red and white checkered napkin. Inside the collander are broccoli and carrots. To the side of the napkin are several beans and more broccoli. In front of the collander entwined in the napkin is a wooden spoon with some broccoli in the ladle. See also AV-3905. Credit: Unknown photographer/artist. |
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Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | The Thenardiess went back to her range, and tasted what was in the kettle with a wooden spoon, grumbling the while. |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
wooden spoon | 98 |
craft wooden spoon | 9 |
ice cream wooden spoon | 5 |
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| Language | Translations for "wooden spoon"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||
Czech | vařeèka. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Finnish | puulusikka. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
French | mouvette, cuillère de bois. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
German | Kochlöffel. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | fakanál (kitchen spoon). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | "文字 (ladle, rice scoop). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | しゃもじ (ladle, rice scoop). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | oodenway oonspay träsked, jumbopris (booby prize). (various references) tahta kaşık, sonuncuya verilen ödül (booby prize). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "d-e-n-n-o-o-o-o-p-s-w" | |
-4 letters: snooped, spooned, swooned, swooped, woopsed. | |
-5 letters: endows, nodose, noosed, odeons, snowed, wonned, wooden. | |
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