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Noun: spoon  spoon
  1. 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"
    - spoonful
     
  3. Formerly a golfing wood with an elevated face
Verb: spoon  spoon
  1. Scoop up or take up with a spoon
    "spoon the sauce over the roast"
     
  2. Snuggle and lie in a position where one person faces the back of the others

Derived forms: spooned, spooning, spoons

Type of: container, containerful, cutlery, eating utensil, make out, neck, pash [Austral, NZ], remove, take, take away, withdraw, wood

Encyclopedia: Spoon