spoon

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. An implement for eating or serving; a scooped utensil whose long handle is straight, in contrast to a ladle.
    — He must have a long spoon that must eat with the devil.
  2. An implement for stirring food while being prepared; a wooden spoon.
  3. A measure that will fit into a spoon; a spoonful.
    — While Ms. Fly was with Sharon in the kitchen, Sharon asked the defendant for a “spoon of drugs.” Defendant refused and stated that he did not know where drugs could be obtained.
  4. A wooden-headed golf club with moderate loft, similar to the modern fairway wood. archaic
  5. An oar. slang
    — To this class college rowing offers no attractions or place, nor are they generally looked upon by the artists of the "spoons" as a desirable addition […]
  6. A type of metal lure resembling the concave head of a tablespoon.
  7. A spoon excavator. informal
  8. A South African shrub of the genus Spatalla.
  9. A simpleton, a spoony. archaic,figuratively,slang
    — To get all the advantages of being with men of this sort, you must know how to draw your inferences and not be a spoon who takes things literally.
  10. A safety handle on a hand grenade, a trigger. US
  11. A metaphoric unit of finite physical and mental energy available for daily activities, especially in the context of living with chronic illness or disability. slang
    — We therefore have to meticulously plan out each day with the small amount of spoons we have. Each task will cost us at least one spoon.
动词 v.
  1. To serve using a spoon; to transfer (something) with a spoon.
    — Sarah spooned some apple sauce onto her plate.
  2. Alternative form of spoom. alt-of,alternative
    — We might have spooned before the wind as well as they.
  3. To flirt; to make advances; to court, to interact romantically or amorously. dated,intransitive
    — By the light of the silvery moon, / I want to spoon, / To my honey I'll croon love's tune, […]
  4. To lie nestled front-to-back, following the contours of the bodies, in a manner reminiscent of stacked spoons. informal,intransitive,transitive
  5. To lie nestled front-to-back, following the contours of the bodies, in a manner reminiscent of stacked spoons.; To have sex in such a position. broadly,informal,intransitive,transitive
  6. To hit (the ball) weakly, pushing it with a lifting motion, instead of striking with an audible knock.
    — Law is in the field; the Criminal at the wicket. If Law makes a mistake—sends down a loose ball or drops a catch—the Criminal scores a little or has another lease of life. But if he makes a mistake—if he lets a straight ball pass or spoons towards a steady man—he is done for.
  7. To fish with a concave spoon bait. intransitive
  8. To catch by fishing with a concave spoon bait. transitive
    — He had with him all the tackle necessary for spooning pike.

词形变化

spoons plural spoons present,singular,third-person spooning participle,present spooned participle,past spooned past spoons present,singular,third-person spooning participle,present spooned participle,past spooned past

词汇关系

上位词
cutlery flatware kitchenware silverware tableware utensil
下位词
coffee spoon dessert spoon dessertspoon egg spoon grapefruit spoon measuring spoon parfait spoon runcible spoon salt spoon saltspoon serving spoon soup spoon soupspoon tablespoon teaspoon wooden spoon
衍生词
absinthe spoon apostle spoon baffing spoon bar spoon born with a silver spoon in one's mouth butterspoon caddy spoon caviar spoon deflagrating spoon dig one's grave with a fork and spoon earspoon ear-spoon ear spoon eat something up with a spoon eat up with a spoon egg and spoon race fopoon fpoon gag me with a spoon greasy spoon he who sups with the devil should have a long spoon level spoon love spoon monkey spoon out of spoons salad spoon serving spoon shoe spoon silver spoon silver-spoon socialist slipper spoon slotted spoon spife spindrift spoodle spoonable spoonbait spoonbender spoonbending spoonbill spoonbilled spoon-bowl spoon bowl spoonbread spoon bread spoon chime spoondrift spoon-feed spoon-fed spoonflower spoonful spoon-hook spoon hook spoonie spoonist spoonless spoonlike spoonload spoon lure spoonmaker spoonmaking spoonmeat spoon-meat spoon mustard spoon oar spoon of Diocles spoonplug spoon receiver spoon rest spoon sled spoons position spoon straw spoon sweet spoon theory spoontray spoonula spoon warmer spoonways spoonwing spoon-winged lacewing spoonwise spoonwood spoonworm spoon worm spoonwort spork spubbler sugar spoon table-spoon there is no spoon tire spoon big spoon little spoon spooner spoon off spoon out
相关词
cutlery ladle silverware
并列词
foon fork knife ladle spork

词源

词源 1
From Middle English spoon, spoune, spone, spon (“spoon, chip of wood”), from Old English spōn (“sliver, chip of wood, shaving”), from Proto-West Germanic *spānu, from Proto-Germanic *spēnuz (“chip, flake, shaving”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)peH- (“chip, shaving, log, length of wood”).
Cognate with Scots spun, spon (“spoon, shingle”), West Frisian spoen (“chip”), Dutch spaan (“chip, flinders”), German Span (“chip, flake, shaving”), Swedish spån (“chip, flake”), Norwegian Nynorsk spon (“chip, spoon”), Faroese spónur (“wood chip; spoon”), Ancient Greek σφήν (sphḗn, “wedge”)(though the connection to the Greek is likely impossible by modern reconstructions of PIE). Eclipsed non-native Middle English cuculer, coclear (“spoon”), from Old English cuculer, cuceler, cucler, borrowed from Latin cochlear (“spoon”).
The "metaphoric unit of personal energy" sense was coined by writer and disability advocate Christine Miserandino in 2003 (see spoon theory).
词源 2
Uncertain. Compare spoom.
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