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UK
/spˈuːn/
]
[ US /ˈspun/ ]
[ US /ˈspun/ ]
NOUN
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as much as a spoon will hold
he added two spoons of sugar - formerly a golfing wood with an elevated face
- a piece of cutlery with a shallow bowl-shaped container and a handle; used to stir or serve or take up food
VERB
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scoop up or take up with a spoon
spoon the sauce over the roast - snuggle and lie in a position where one person faces the back of the others
How To Use spoon In A Sentence
- Put all the fruit in a saucepan on a gentle heat and add a couple of tablespoons of caster sugar and a slug of something pleasantly alcoholic such as brandy, whisky or even sherry.
- Add a couple of tablespoons of cold water and bring together to form a firm dough.
- No, Jack won't have nobody tell him what he can't ever be, even if he weren't born with a silver spoon in one end and an Harley Street hooter up the other. Jack Scallywag
- Spoon the mixture into the prepared flan case and chill until set.
- To acidify soil, sprinkle two tablespoons of aluminum phosphate or sulfur around the shrubs in early fall.
- Spoon the mixture into a pudding basin and chill for at least two hours.
- It contained two spoons and a fork, silver with her family crest stamped on the handles. THE LAST OF THE GENTLEMEN ADVENTURERS: Coming of Age in the Arctic
- But, as soon as that box landed, as soon as he delved in and lifted out his brassie and his spoon and his cleek, Reid did not have a single complaint in the whole wide world.
- _ -- Soak a teaspoonful of gelatine in a dessert spoonful of water. The Girl's Own Paper, Vol. VIII. No. 358, November 6, 1886.
- There were separate spoons for soup, corn, and ice cream.