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Definition: Spoon |
SpoonNoun1. A piece of cutlery with a shallow bowl-shaped container and a handle; used to stir or serve or take up food. 2. As much as a spoon will hold; "he added two spoons of sugar". 3. Formerly a golfing wood with an elevated face. Verb1. Scoop up or take up with a spoon; "spoon the sauce over the roast". 2. Cuddling and kissing. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "spoon" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1380. (references) |
Etymology: Spoon \Spoon\, noun. [Old English spon, Anglo-Saxon sp[=o]n, a chip; akin to Dutch spaan, German span, Danish spaan, Swedish sp[*a]n, Icelandic sp['a]nn, sp['o]nn, a chip, a spoon. Compare to Span-new.]. (references) |
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Food & Agriculture | A trolling bait fashioned like the bowl of a spoon with a hook at one end and the line attached to the other. Source: European Union. (references) |
Literature | Spoon (See Apostle-Spoons .) He hath need of a long spoon that eateth with the devil. Shakespeare alludes to this proverb in the Comedy of Errors, iv. 3; and again in the Tempest, ii. 2, where Stephano says: "Mercy! mercy! this is a devil ... I will leave him, I have no long spoon." "Therefor behoveth him a ful long spoon That schal ete with a feend." Chaucer: The Squieres Tale, 10,916. Spoon (A). One who is spoony, or sillily love-sick on a girl. "He was awful spoons at the time."- Truth (Queer Story), March 25th, 1886. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
Mining | A tool for cleaning dust or sludge from quarry blasting holes.Syn:scraper. (references) |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
A spoon is a common eating utensil, or item of cutlery, like a small spade, that occurs in a number of sizes and forms and is also suitable for liquid food and for stirring, and can have a number of other uses, including: courtship, combat and musical entertainment, strangely enough.
Spoon types
- Dessert spoon - between tablespoon and teaspoon in size
- Egg spoon - used for hens' eggs; smaller than a teaspoon
- Ladle - spoon with a long handle attached vertically; for liquids
- Love spoon - a carved wooden spoon given as a token of betrothal
- Musical spoons - because they are played in pairs
- Runcible spoon - invented by Edward Lear in The Owl and the Pussycat, but later given a real meaning
- Serving spoon
- Silver spoon - a small spoon given to a newborn child to ensure good fortune; used as a metaphor for someone born to riches
- Slotted spoon
- Soup spoon - different types:
- metal soup spoon similar in shape to a teaspoon
- Chinese soup spoon - usually made from ceramic and of a distinct Chinese soup spoon shape
- Tablespoon
- Teaspoon
- Wooden spoon - sometimes given symbolically as a compensation for losing a competition
Spoon Quotes
See also food, knife, fork, tablespoon, spork, Spoonerism
- "Spoon!!!" - Battle cry of The Tick, The Tick
- From the movie Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves:
- "I'll cut out his heart with a spoon..." -Sherriff of Nottingham
- "Why a spoon cousin? Why not an axe?" -Guy of Gisbourne
- "Because it will hurt more, you idiot!" -Sherriff
- "We found this spoon sir." -Sergeant, The Life of Brian
- "And the cat's in the cradle with the silver spoon, little boy blue and the man in the moon" - "Cats in the Cradle", performed by Harry Chapin and Ugly Kid Joe
- "There is no spoon." -Bald Kid, The Matrix
- "There is no spoon?" -Neo, The Matrix
- "A sweet lounge lizard, with a silver spoon" -Motorhead, Stone Dead Forever
- "Do you know that's the third spoon I've heard drop this month?" -Algy Longworth, Bulldog Drummond
- "That tall drink of water with the silver spoon up his ass." -Red, The Shawshank Redemption
- "They'll east their words with a fork and spoon, and watch 'em! They'll hit the road and all be surfin' soon." -The Beach Boys, "Catch A Wave"
- "They came in through the bathroom window, protected by a silver spoon" The Beatles
- Spoon = Sporadic Purveyor of Obscure kNowledge
- "And the dish ran away with the spoon." - from a nursery rhyme
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Spoon."
Synonyms: SpoonSynonyms: spoonful (n), smooch (v), snog (v). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Endearment | Bill and coo, spoon, toy, dally, flirt, coquet; gallivant, galavant; philander; make love; pay one's court to, pay one's addresses to, pay one's attentions to; serenade; court, woo; set one's cap at; be sweet upon, look sweet upon; ogle, cast sheep's eyes upon; faire les yeux doux. |
Ignoramus | Noun: ignoramus, dunce; wooden spoon; no scholar. |
Instrument | Hammer; (impulse); edge tool; (cut); borer; vice, teeth; (hold); nail, rope; (join); peg; (hang); support; spoon; (vehicle); arms; oar; (navigation); cardiograph, recapper, snowplow, tenpenny, votograph. |
Prosperity | Adjective: prosperous; thriving; Verb: in a fair way, buoyant; well off, well to do, well to do in the world; set up, at one's ease; rich; in good case; in full, in high feather; fortunate, lucky, in luck; born with a silver spoon in one's mouth, born under a lucky star; on the sunny side of the hedge. |
Receptacle | Shovel, trowel, spoon, spatula, ladle, dipper, tablespoon, watch glass, thimble. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
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Screenplays | Do not try and bend the spoon. That's impossible (The Matrix; writing credit: Andy Wachowski and Larry Wachowski.) I always gagged on the silver spoon. (Citizen Kane; writing credit: Herman J. Mankiewicz and Orson Welles) Igby, I could just eat you with a spoon! (Igby Goes Down; writing credit: Burr Steers) They say, 'He who sups with the Devil needs a long spoon.' I was making dinner reservations for two (The Invisible Man; writing credit: Craig Silverstein; Jonathan Glassner) Because I refused to spoon with you last night (Anger Management; writing credit: David Dorfman) | |
Lyrics | I licked the silver spoon (What It's Like; performing artist: Everlast) And scatter like ice from the spoon (Black Balloon; performing artist: Goo Goo Dolls) And the cat's in the cradle and the silver spoon ("The Cat's in the Cradle"; performing artist: Harry Chapin) Yeah I'm like the needle, needle and spoon (Desire; performing artist: U2) Spaghetti with a spoon! Come on and say it (Play that funky music; performing artist: Vanilla Ice) | |
Clever | What is the most important thing to learn in chemistry? Never lick the spoon. (references; author: unknown) You may be born with a silver spoon in your mouth, but you need gold-hearted people to make your life more tasty. (references; author: unknown) | |
Movie/TV Titles | The Silver Spoon (1934) Sonny Spoon (1988) Spoon Obaasan (1983) | |
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 | A hot pink plate on a light pink-checkered tablecloth. On the plate is a tall, conical glass of a yellow liquid, garnished with a lemon slice, some purple grapes and a straw. In front of the glass is a long stirring spoon. Behind it are a whole pineapple and a green bowl with 2 whole lemons. Credit: Unknown photographer/artist. |  | 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. |
 | Sediment sampling using a split spoon sampler at the Town Brook dam removal site. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center. |  | These bendway weirs installed along the Spoon River in Peoria County, Illinois, help to slow down the fast-moving waters that can cause serious streambank erosion damage. Credit: Bob Nichols. |
 | Scenic view of cactus in bloom-sotol or desert spoon with Organ Mountains in background, in southern central New Mexico. Credit: Unknown. |  | ... learns again to eat by herself, using a specially designed spoon. / WHO p. Credit: National Library of Medicine; photo by T. Farkas.. |
 | Sparrow feeding young with spoon. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | "She pretended to eat a little of the furmity with the leaden spoon." / R. Barnes. An engagement in the oyster war on the Chesapeake / / from a sketch by F. Cresson Schell. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Asian(?) baby seated holding spoon or ladle, World's Columbian Exposition, Chicago, Illinois. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Travers Island, New York. Norwegian Independence Day celebration at the Norwegian gunners' school. Potato race--note potato on spoon. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| "Bubbles" by Adam Brown Commentary: "Bubbles on a spoon in a bowl. No, really..." | "Holes" by vares Commentary: "Holes in a spoon." |
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| Play | Caption |
 | Bleenk; tinny; silverware; spoon; fork; knife; knives. |
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Charles Buxton | The rule in carving holds good as to criticism; never cut with a knife what you can cut with a spoon. |
Miguel de Cervantes | Every man was not born with a silver spoon in his mouth. |
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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 |
Grapes of Wrath | Steinbeck, John | A frying pan of grease sputtered over the fire, and it splashed and hissed when Ma dropped the pone in with a spoon. |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | Use a smaller-than-usual spoon, such as a baby spoon. (references) | |
Use a measuring spoon or special medicine-measuring cup if one comes with the medicine. (references) | ||
Trade | Bangladesh | A measuring spoon must be supplied in all containers of baby food. (references) |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | REGALIA, n. Distinguishing insignia, jewels and costume of such ancient and honorable orders as Knights of Adam; Visionaries of Detectable Bosh; the Ancient Order of Modern Troglodytes; the League of Holy Humbug; the Golden Phalanx of Phalangers; the Genteel Society of Expurgated Hoodlums; the Mystic Alliances of Georgeous Regalians; Knights and Ladies of the Yellow Dog; the Oriental Order of Sons of the West; the Blatherhood of Insufferable Stuff; Warriors of the Long Bow; Guardians of the Great Horn Spoon; the Band of Brutes; the Impenitent Order of Wife-Beaters; the Sublime Legion of Flamboyant Conspicuants; Worshipers at the Electroplated Shrine; Shining Inaccessibles; Fee-Faw-Fummers of the inimitable Grip; Jannissaries of the Broad-Blown Peacock; Plumed Increscencies of the Magic Temple; the Grand Cabal of Able-Bodied Sedentarians; Associated Deities of the Butter Trade; the Garden of Galoots; the Affectionate Fraternity of Men Similarly Warted; the Flashing Astonishers; Ladies of Horror; Cooperative Association for Breaking into the Spotlight; Dukes of Eden; Disciples Militant of the Hidden Faith; Knights-Champions of the Domestic Dog; the Holy Gregarians; the Resolute Optimists; the Ancient Sodality of Inhospitable Hogs; Associated Sovereigns of Mendacity; Dukes-Guardian of the Mystic Cess-Pool; the Society for Prevention of Prevalence; Kings of Drink; Polite Federation of Gents-Consequential; the Mysterious Order of the Undecipherable Scroll; Uniformed Rank of Lousy Cats; Monarchs of Worth and Hunger; Sons of the South Star; Prelates of the Tub-and-Sword. |
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| "Spoon" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 91.97% of the time. "Spoon" is used about 709 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 91.97% | 652 | 10,033 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 6.62% | 47 | 49,740 |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 1.41% | 10 | 111,207 |
| Total | 100.00% | 709 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "spoon" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Spoon | Last name | 1,000 | 10,842 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
Expressions using "spoon": Apostle spoon ♦ be born with a silver spoon in one's mouth ♦ be born with a silver spoon in the mouth ♦ born with a silver spoon in one's mouth ♦ caddy spoon ♦ desert spoon ♦ Dessert spoon ♦ egg spoon ♦ fork and spoon ♦ greasy spoon ♦ he's born with a silver spoon in his mouth ♦ kitchen spoon ♦ measuring spoon ♦ mixing spoon ♦ runcible spoon ♦ serving spoon ♦ silver spoon ♦ soup spoon ♦ spoon bait ♦ spoon bit ♦ spoon bread ♦ spoon feed ♦ spoon food ♦ spoon hook ♦ spoon lure ♦ spoon meat ♦ spoon nail ♦ spoon net ♦ spoon oar ♦ spoon off ♦ spoon out ♦ spoon up ♦ stirring with a spoon ♦ sugar spoon ♦ table spoon ♦ wooden spoon. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "spoon": spoon-bending, Spoon-billed, spoon-fashion, spoon-fed, spoon-feed, spoon-feeding, spoon-feeds, spoon-full, spoon-handle, spoon-like, Spoon-meat, spoon-player, spoon-shaped, spoon-sized. | |
Ending with "spoon": coffee-spoon, egg-and-spoon, egg-spoon, Heart-spoon, oil-spoon, salt-spoon, serving-spoon, silver-spoon, tea-spoon. | |
Containing "spoon": I'm-sir-john-and-i've-got-a-spoon-and-seal-and-my-family-lies-at-kingsbere. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| 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 | Expression | Frequency per Day |
spoon | 852 | souvenir spoon | 40 |
spoon sports | 216 | collector spoon | 34 |
engine spoon | 206 | baby spoon | 32 |
silver spoon | 171 | rim spoon | 32 |
spoon watch | 107 | glass spoon | 31 |
spoon rack | 107 | honda spoon engine | 29 |
wooden spoon | 98 | band spoon | 29 |
spoon bending | 58 | golden spoon yogurt | 27 |
civic spoon | 58 | chocolate spoon | 27 |
restaurant spoon | 54 | integra spoon | 27 |
measuring spoon | 54 | collectible spoon | 26 |
spoon river anthology | 52 | frozen golden spoon yogurt | 26 |
racing spoon | 50 | motor spoon | 25 |
spoon lyrics | 49 | s2000 spoon | 25 |
honda spoon | 47 | demitasse spoon | 24 |
spoon river college | 46 | spoon wheels | 24 |
big spoon too | 43 | no spoon there | 23 |
my golden spoon | 42 | by great horn spoon | 23 |
spoon rest | 41 | fishing spoon | 23 |
spoon ring | 41 | t spoon | 22 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "spoon"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Afrikaans | lepel. (various references) | |
Albanian | njeri i ranë në dashuri (amorous), marr me lugë, lugë (kitchen spoon). (various references) | |
Arabic | ملعقة, مضرب غولف خشبي الرأس, غازل (court, dally, flirt, make a pass at, make out, mash, pet, philander, sue), سكب بملعقة, شىء كالملعقة. (various references) | |
Asturian | cuyar. (various references) | |
Aymara | khuchuña. (various references) | |
Basque | goilare. (various references) | |
Bavarian | leffi. (various references) | |
Bemba | supuni. (various references) | |
Blackfoot | innóóhsoyis. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | ухажвам лигаво, слепешката влюбен човек, сипвам с лъжица, греба с лъжица, глупак (bird brained, blinker, boeotian, bonehead, boob, booby, calf, chuckle-head, clod, clot, coot, dodo, dotterel, driveler, dummy, fathead, flat, fool, gaby, gawk, goof, goon, gowk, greenhorn, gull, hammerhead, jackass, jobbernowl, lack-brain, lame brain, leather-head, lunkhead, muggins, mutt, mutton head, ninny, nitwit, noddy, noodle, numskull, nutter, oaf, pudding-head, pumpkin-head, sap, sap-head, schmo, schnook, sheep's head, silly, simp, simple, simpleton, stupe, stupid, thickhead, tomfool, twit, witling, wittol, zany, zombie), вид гребло, вид пръчка за голф (niblick, putter), занасям се по (moon over), лъжица (cochleare), ловя риба на блесна (spin), простак (bounder, buffoon, cad, fellow, hog, lout, oaf, outsider, philistine, savage, schmo, schnook, slob, twerp, vulgarian). (various references) | |
Cebuano | kutsara. (various references) | |
Chamorro | kuchala. (various references) | |
Chinese | 匙子, 匙 , 柶 (ladle), 勺 . (various references) | |
Cornish | lo. (various references) | |
Czech | lžíce (dipper). (various references) | |
Danish | ske (become, come about, grow, happen, occur). (various references) | |
Dutch | pollepel (large spoon), lepel (anchor fluke, anchor palm, fluke, spoon bait, spoon lure). (various references) | |
Ecuadorian Quechua | huishic. (various references) | |
Esperanto | kulero, kulerego (large spoon). (various references) | |
Faeroese | skeið (class, course, era). (various references) | |
Farsi | چمچه (Scoop), قاشق , باقاشق برداشتن . (various references) | |
Finnish | lusikka (spoon bait, spoon lure). (various references) | |
French | cuiller (spinner), cuillère. (various references) | |
Frisian | leppel. (various references) | |
German | Löffel (bucket, ear, lug, lug-hole, shovel, spoonful, spoons, teaspoon, teaspoons). (various references) | |
Greek | κουτάλι (tablespoon). (various references) | |
Hebrew | כף (handle, palm, scale, sole, sole of foot). (various references) | |
Hungarian | kanál (bailer, scoop, shovel), szerelmes (amatory, amorous, enamored, enamoured, erotic, in love, lover, loving, nutty, sweetheart, sweetie), mamlasz (chuckle-head, Cully, daw, fat-head, feather brain, featherbrain, feather-head, fumbler, gawk, geese, goose, muff, noodle, numb-skull, numskull, oaf, simple sammy, simpleton, softie, softy), málé (cornflour pudding, drip), kanálvillantó (spoon bait), evező tolla, evező lapátja. (various references) | |
Icelandic | skeið. (various references) | |
Indonesian | sendok (ladle), menyendok (ladle out, ladle up, scoop out, scoop up). (various references) | |
Inuktitut | aluut. (various references) | |
Irish | spunóg. (various references) | |
Italian | cucchiaio (tablespoon). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 匙 , 匕 , スピンドル油 (souffle, Sphinx, spindle oil, splice, spline, spool, spooler, spoon-feeding, Sputnik, staple fiber, sub-economizer). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | ひ (blaze, consort, cost, day, expense, faulty-, fire, flame, hail, ice, light, negation, no, non-, princess, proportion, ratio, rook, sun, sunlight, sunshine, the noes, wicked person), さじ (something small or petty, trifle), スプーン . (various references) | |
Kongo | nzalu. (various references) | |
Korean | 숟가락. (various references) | |
Macedonian | lazica. (various references) | |
Malay | sendok. (various references) | |
Manx | speiney, spein, nuiddraghey (neck, pet, pet as lovers). (various references) | |
Maori | pune. (various references) | |
Maya | chukub. (various references) | |
Mohawk | atokwa. (various references) | |
Norwegian | skje (happen). (various references) | |
Occitan | culhièr. (various references) | |
Papago | kusal. (various references) | |
Papiamen | kuchara. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | oonspay.(various references) | |
Polish | łyżka. (various references) | |
Portuguese | colher (berry, collect, crop, drag out, garner, gather, gather a crop, gather a harvest, harvest, pick, pick off, pick up, pluck, pull, reap, reap a harvest, tear off). (various references) | |
Provencal | culhièr. (various references) | |
Romanian | servi cu lingurã, vislã cu partea latã scobitã, vârcolac (ghost, vampire, Werewolf, werwolf), pescui cu vârcolac, linguriţã (scoop, tea-spoon, tea-spoonful), lingurã (bail, shovel, spoonful, tablespoon, tablespoonful), fi îndrãgostit lulea (be over head and ears in love with), crosã, aduna cu o lingurã. (various references) | |
Romansch | tschadun. (various references) | |
Romany | loy. (various references) | |
Ruanda | akayiko. (various references) | |
Russian | ложка (spoonful). (various references) | |
Samoan | sipuni. (various references) | |
Scottish | spàin (a spoon). (various references) | |
Sepedi | leho (ladle). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | zahvatati kašikom, kašika (scoop). (various references) | |
Sicilian | cucchiaru. (various references) | |
Spanish | cuchara (grab, scoop, tablespoon), cucharilla (teaspoon, teaspoonful, wedge). (various references) | |
Sranan | spun. (various references) | |
Swahili | mwiko (large spoon), kijiko. (various references) | |
Swazi | sí-púnu. (various references) | |
Swedish | sked (spoonful), skeddrag (spoon bait, spoon hook, spoon lure), ösa (bail, bale out, lade, ladle, pour, scoop). (various references) | |
Tagalog | kutsára. (various references) | |
Thai | คนดำ (coon, egg, egg and spoon). (various references) | |
Turkish | zoka ile balık avlamak, zoka (cast, plummet), zevzeklik etmek (flannel, mug), oynaşmak (dally, Frisk, play, play on, play upon, play with, play with each other), kepçe (digger, dipper, dipper dredger, ladle, scoop, shovel, skimmer, soup ladle), kaşıkla almak (spoon out, spoon up), kaşık şeklinde balık yemi (spoon bait), kaşık, golf sopası (golf club, iron, Jigger, lofter, mashie, niblick, wedge), flört etmek (date, flirt, go out, go together, go with, keep company with, philander, walk out with), divane, aşık (admirer, adorer, amorist, amorous, beau, besotted, enamoured, fancy man, gallant, gone, in ecstasy, in love, inamorato, lover, minstrel, paramour, singer, Swain, sweetheart, wandering minstrel, wooer), çıkmak (ascend, break out, break through, climb, come about, come off, come on, come out, come to a head, come up, crop out, date, date up, detach, drop out, emanate, emerge, erupt, escalate, eventuate, exit, extricate oneself, extrude, flirt, get off, go for, go forth, go off, go out, go together, go with, grow out of, grow up, hatch, have it's source in, issue, jut, jut out, keep company with, knock about, knock around, launch, launch out, move out, occur, originate, peep, peep out, photograph, point, present oneself, prove, puff out, puff up, pull out, pullulate, quit, rise, rub off, rub out, sally forth, sally out, secede, separate, shoot out, spring, stem, step out, step up, stick, stick out, take it's source from, take out, take to, walk out, walk out of, walk out with, well forth, work out). (various references) | |
Turkmen | зemзe. (various references) | |
Ukrainian | черпати ложкою, видовбувати (cave, gouge, hollow, indent, mortice, mortise, scoop), ловити рибу на блешню, ложка (cochleare), блешня (minnow), дерев'яна ключка. (various references) | |
Vietnamese | sướng từ trong trứng sướng ra đánh đu với tinh. (various references) | |
Welsh | llwyo (ladle), llwy (ladle). (various references) | |
Zulu | isipunu. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Sumerian | 3100 BCE-2500 BCE | dilim. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Language | Date | Source | Numbers Chapter 7, Verse 80 |
| Greek (transliterated) | 250 BC | Septuagint | Quiskhn mian deka cruswn plhrh qumiamatoV |
| Latin | 405 | Vulgate | Mortariolum aureum adpendens decem siclos plenum incenso |
| Renaissance English | 1526 | Tyndale | And a golden spone of twentye sycles full of cens. |
| Jacobean English | 1611 | King James | One golden spoon of ten shekels, full of incense: |
| Victorian English | 1833 | Webster | One golden spoon of ten shekels, full of incense: |
| Basic English | 1964 | Ogden | One gold spoon of ten shekels, full of spice; |
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| Language | Numbers Chapter 7, Verse 80 |
| Bulgarian | един златен темянник от десет сикли , пълен с темян; |
| Cebuano | Usa ka cuchara nga bulawan nga may napulo ka siclo, nga puno sa incienso; |
| Chinese | 一 個 金 盂 、 重 十 舍 客 勒 、 盛 滿 了 香 。 |
| Croatian | onda jedna zlatna posudica od deset šekela puna tamjana; |
| Danish | en kande på lO Guldsekel, fyldt med Røgelse, |
| Dutch | Een reukschaal van tien gouden sikkelen, vol reukwerks; |
| Finnish | kymmenen sekelin painoinen kultakuppi, täynnä suitsuketta, |
| French | une coupe d`or de dix sicles, pleine de parfum; |
| German | dazu einen goldenen Löffel, zehn Lot schwer, voll Räuchwerk, |
| Haitian Creole | Li ofri menm bagay ak Nakchon. |
| Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama | dan sebuah ceper emas, beratnya sepuluh syikal, penuh dengan dupa, |
| Italian | una coppa d'oro di dieci sicli piena di profumo, |
| Maori | Kotahi koko koura, tekau ona hekere, ki tonu i te whakakakara: |
| Norwegian | en skål av gull på ti sekel, full av røkelse, |
| Portuguese | uma colher de ouro de dez siclos, cheia de incenso; |
| Rumanian | o cqyuie de aur de zece sicli, plinq cu tqmkie; |
| Swedish | vidare en skål av guld om tio siklar, full med rökelse, |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "spoon": spoonbill, spoonbills, spooned, spoonerism, spoonerisms, spooney, spooneys, spoonful, spoonfuls, spoonier, spoonies, spooniest, spoonily, spooning, spoons, spoonsful, spoony. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "spoon": dessertspoon, soupspoon, tablespoon, teaspoon. (additional references) | |
Words containing "spoon": dessertspoonful, dessertspoonfuls, dessertspoons, dessertspoonsful, soupspoons, tablespoonful, tablespoonfuls, tablespoons, tablespoonsful, teaspoonful, teaspoonfuls, teaspoons, teaspoonsful. (additional references) | |
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"Spoon" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Espadon, Espoo, scoon, Shoon, sloon, snoun, sooin, Sopron, S'oton, Spano, spion, spoa, spoint, spon, spond, spoo, spood, spooh, spooj, Spoonie, sporn, spoub, spound, sppon, spuen, spunn, sroon. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "spoon" (pronounced spuw"n) |
| 3 | -p uw" n | harpoon, lampoon, poon. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: poons, snoop. | |
| Words within the letters "n-o-o-p-s" | |
-1 letter: oops, pons, poon, soon. | |
-2 letters: noo, nos, ons, ops, son, sop. | |
-3 letters: no, on, op, os, so. | |
| Words containing the letters "n-o-o-p-s" | |
+1 letter: phonos, poison, pornos, snoops, snoopy, spoons, spoony. | |
+2 letters: coupons, gonophs, nonpros, nonstop, operons, opsonic, opsonin, options, phonons, photons, plosion, pocosin, poisons, pompons, ponchos, pontons, potions, protons, snooped, snooper, soprano, soupcon, sponson, sponsor, spooned, spooney, youpons. | |
+3 letters: anoopsia, duopsony, empoison, endopods, harpoons, hencoops, iodopsin, isopodan, lampoons, metopons, opinions, opposing, opsonify, opsonins, opsonize, pandoors, patroons, planosol, platoons, plosions, pocosins, pogonias, pogonips, poisoned, poisoner, polarons, polygons, pompanos, pontoons, poorness, popcorns, portions, position, positron, postpone, potstone, prognose, prolongs, pronouns, propone</ | |
