Meaning

noun a piece of cutlery with a shallow bowl-shaped container and a handle; used to stir or serve or take up food

noun as much as a spoon will hold

noun formerly a golfing wood with an elevated face

originFrom Middle English spoon, spoune, spone, spon (“spoon, chip of wood”), from Old English spōn (“sliver, chip of wood, shaving”), from Proto-West Germanic *spānu, from Proto-Germanic *spēnuz (“chip, flake, shaving”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)peH- (“chip, shaving, log, length of wood”). Cognate with Scots spun, spon (“spoon, shingle”), West Frisian spoen (“chip”), Dutch spaan (“chip,…

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