Definizione monolingua

spoon

spoon (third-person singular simple present spoons, present participle spooning, simple past and past participle spooned)

1. To serve using a spoon.

   Sarah spooned some apple sauce onto her plate.

2. (intransitive, dated) To flirt; to make advances; to court, to interact romantically or amorously.
   • 1913, D. H. Lawrence, Sons and Lovers, Penguin 2006, p. 197:

     Do you think we spoon and do? We only talk.

3. (intransitive, informal, of persons) To lie nestled closely together front-to-back, following the contours of ones bodies, in a manner reminiscent of stacked spoons fitting within one another in a drawer. (Usually has a sexual connotation.)

spoon (plural spoons)

1. An implement for eating or serving; a scooped utensil whose long handle is straight, in contrast to a ladle.
2. An implement for stirring food while being prepared; a wooden spoon.
3. A measure that will fit into a spoon; a spoonful.
4. (sports, archaic) A wooden-headed golf club with moderate loft, similar to the modern three wood.
5. (fishing) A type of metal lure resembling the concave head of a table spoon.
6. (dentistry, informal) A spoon excavator.
7. (figuratively) A simpleton, a spooney.

Definizione dizionario spoon

	cucchiaio
	scooped utensil for eating (or serving)
	An implement for eating or serving, a small bowl with a long straight handle.

mestolo

Altri significati:

lie together

An implement for eating or serving; a scooped utensil whose long handle is straight, in contrast to a ladle.

flirt

(intransitive, dated) To flirt; to make advances; to court, to interact romantically or amorously.

metal lure for fishing

(sports, archaic) A wooden-headed golf club with moderate loft, similar to the modern three wood.

(dentistry, informal) A spoon excavator.

sailing terminology

(intransitive, informal, of persons) To lie nestled closely together front-to-back, following the contours of ones' bodies, in a manner reminiscent of stacked spoons fitting within one another in a drawer. (Usually has a sexual connotation.)

(figuratively) A simpleton, a spooney.

An implement for stirring food while being prepared; a wooden spoon.

A measure that will fit into a spoon; a spoonful.

(fishing) A type of metal lure resembling the concave head of a table spoon.

(nautical) To turn to port and starboard erratically for short periods of time, in the manner of a sailing boat heading nearly directly into a shifting wind.