SPOON

v. n.

6 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

1.
v.

See Spoom. [Obs.] We might have spooned before the wind as well as they. Pepys.

2.
n.

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.

3.
n.

Anything which resembles a spoon in shape; esp. (Fishing), a spoon bait.

4.
n.

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.

5.
v.

To take up in, a spoon.

6.
v.

To act with demonstrative or foolish fondness, as one in love. [Colloq.]

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