spoon
verb/spuːn/
/spuːn/
Verb Forms
| present simple I / you / we / they spoon | /spuːn/ /spuːn/ |
| he / she / it spoons | /spuːnz/ /spuːnz/ |
| past simple spooned | /spuːnd/ /spuːnd/ |
| past participle spooned | /spuːnd/ /spuːnd/ |
| -ing form spooning | /ˈspuːnɪŋ/ /ˈspuːnɪŋ/ |
- spoon something + adv./prep. to lift and move food with a spoon
- She spooned the sauce over the chicken pieces.
Word OriginOld English spōn ‘chip of wood’, of Germanic origin; related to German Span ‘shaving’. The current noun sense is of Scandinavian origin. The verb dates from the early 18th cent.Definitions on the go
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