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Image:Tablespoon6234.jpg|thumb|right|200px|A table spoon
Image:Chinese spoon.jpg|thumb|right|150px|A spoon from China
Image:Fishing_lure_spoon.png|thumb|right|75px|A fishing spoon

Etymology
Middle English spone, �spoon, chip of wood�, from Old English spon|spón �sliver, chip of wood�, from common Germanic *sp�-nu-, derived from Proto-Indo-European *sp�- �length of wood�. Possible cognates include Greek ��ήν (sph�n) �wedge�.

Pronunciation
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Rhymes: Rhymes:English:-u�n|-u�n

Noun
en-noun

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. context|sports|archaic A wooden-headed golf club with moderate loft, similar to the modern three wood.
4. context|fishing A type of metal lure resembling the concave head of a table spoon.

Translations

Arabic: ARchar|��ع�ة unicode|(milá�qa) f
hy: t|hy|Õ£Õ¤Õ¡Õ¬ (gtal)
Azerbaijani: qa�ıq
eu: t|eu|goilare
Bosnian: kašika f, žlica f
Bulgarian: л�жи�а f
Chinese: 湯�, 汤池 (t�ng chí), �� (chí z�)
Croatian: žlica f, kašika f
Czech: lžíce f
Dutch: lepel m
Erzya: пен� (pench)
Esperanto: kulero
Estonian: lusikas
Finnish: lusikka (1)
French: cuiller f, cuillère f
German: Löffel m
Greek: κο��άλι (kutáli) n, �ο�λιά�ι (khuljári) n, κο�λιά�ιο (kokhliário) n
he: t|he|�ף (kaf)
Hindi: �म�म� (�amma�) m
Hungarian: kanál
Inuktitut: ���
Italian: cucchiaio m
Japanese: ���� (supūn)
Komi: пан� (panj)
Korean: ��� (sutgarak)
mid
Kurdish: KUchar|ک����ک
Latin: coclearium|cocle�rium n, cocleare|cocle�re n, coclear|coclear n, coclearum|cocle�rum n
Lithuanian: šaukštas m
Maltese: mgħarfa f
Norwegian: skei m
Persian: FAchar|�اش� (q�šeq), FAchar|���� (�am�eh)
Polish: �yżka f, �yżeczka f (teaspoon)
Portuguese: colher f
Rohingya: camic
Romanian: lingura
Russian: ложка (lóžka) f
Scottish Gaelic spàin f
Serbian:
:Cyrillic: ка�ика f, жли�а f, лижка f
:Roman: kašika f, žlica f, ližka f
Slovak: lyžica f (tablespoon), lyži�ka f (teaspoon) (1); varecha f, vareška f (2)
Slovene: žlica f
Spanish: cuchara f
Swedish: sked c
Tagalog: kutsara
Telugu: ��మ��ా (chemchaa)
Turkish: ka�ık
Ukrainian: ложка (lóžka) f
Urdu: URchar|���|���� (�amma�) m

1. context|of sailing vessels to turn to port and starboard erratically for short periods of time, as a sailboat does when heading nearly into a wind that varies direction slightly
2. (slang; late 19th-early 20th century; of people) to have a nervously ambivalent romantic rendez-vous, as young people had during the age of chaperones, from turning one's head toward and away from the other person as the sailing ship did
3. (slang; late 20th century; of people'') to lie nested together, in a manner reminiscent of stacked spoons; usually has a sexual connotation

Translations
trans-top|sailing terminology
Dutch: laveren
trans-mid
Spanish: cuchara
trans-bottom

;ambivalent relationship

;way of lying together

See also
cutlery
ladle
silverware

Category:1000 English basic words
Category:Cutlery

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