spoon
/spun/
verb
- To lift and move something with a spoon.
- The chef spooned the sauce over the fish.
- She spooned the soup into bowls for everyone.
- He carefully spooned the ice cream into a dish.
- To lie close together, with one person's back against the other's front, like spoons nested together.
- They spooned on the couch while watching a movie.
- The couple likes to spoon when they sleep.
- She spooned her child to help him fall asleep.
noun
- An eating utensil with a shallow bowl-shaped end and a handle, used for eating or serving liquid or semi-liquid food.
- The baby learned to hold a spoon and feed herself.
- Please pass me a spoon so I can eat my soup.
- She stirred the coffee with a small silver spoon.
- A spoonful, or the amount that a spoon can hold.
- Add two spoons of sugar to the mixture.
- The recipe calls for a spoon of vanilla extract.
- He took a spoon of medicine before bed.