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How to pronounce “spoon”
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Pronunciation guide for spoon
- Learning goal
- Practice the English pronunciation of spoon with real speech in context.
- Available examples
- 8 YouTube examples
- Real speech example
- Falling to Earth
you get into space. Why is a spoon designed the way it is? [laughter] We don't often think
- Definition summary
- An implement for eating or serving; a scooped utensil whose long handle is straight, in contrast to a ladle.
Example 1 of 8
How to pronounce spoon
Falling to Earth
you get into space. Why is a spoon designed the way it is? [laughter] We don't often think
Example Sentences
A Deep Dive Into “spoon”
Meaning
- [Noun]
- An implement for eating or serving; a scooped utensil whose long handle is straight, in contrast to a ladle.
- An implement for stirring food while being prepared; a wooden spoon.
- A measure that will fit into a spoon; a spoonful.
- (golf, archaic) A wooden-headed golf club with moderate loft, similar to the modern fairway wood.
- (slang) An oar.
- (fishing) A type of metal lure resembling the concave head of a tablespoon.
- (dentistry, informal) A spoon excavator.
- A South African shrub of the genus Spatalla.
- (figuratively, slang, archaic) A simpleton, a spoony.
- (US, military) A safety handle on a hand grenade, a trigger.
- (slang) A metaphoric unit of finite physical and mental energy available for daily activities, especially in the context of living with chronic illness or disability.
- [Verb]
- To serve using a spoon; to transfer (something) with a spoon.
- (intransitive, dated) To flirt; to make advances; to court, to interact romantically or amorously.
- (transitive or intransitive, informal, of persons) To lie nestled front-to-back, following the contours of the bodies, in a manner reminiscent of stacked spoons.
- (tennis, golf, croquet) To hit (the ball) weakly, pushing it with a lifting motion, instead of striking with an audible knock.
- (intransitive) To fish with a concave spoon bait.
- (transitive) To catch by fishing with a concave spoon bait.
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