Meaning

7 senses
  1. To serve using a spoon; to transfer (something) with a spoon.

    Sarah spooned some apple sauce onto her plate.

    scoop up or take up with a spoon

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

  3. (informal, intransitive, transitive)To lie nestled front-to-back, following the contours of the bodies, in a manner reminiscent of stacked spoons.

    Löffelchen schlafen

  4. To lie nestled front-to-back, following the contours of the bodies, in a manner reminiscent of stacked spoons.

    (broadly, informal, intransitive, transitive)To have sex in such a position.

  5. To hit (the ball) weakly, pushing it with a lifting motion, instead of striking with an audible knock.

  6. (intransitive)To fish with a concave spoon bait.

  7. (transitive)To catch by fishing with a concave spoon bait.

Examples

250 sentences
  1. I'd like to buy a wooden spoon.

    Я хотів би купити дерев'яну ложку. — deniko

    ruЯ хотел бы купить деревянную ложку. — Selena777

  2. Tom put down his spoon and picked up a fork.

    Том поклав ложку і взяв виделку. — deniko

    ruТом отложил ложку и взял вилку. — marafon

    deTom legte den Löffel weg und nahm eine Gabel. — Pfirsichbaeumchen

  3. I licked the spoon.

    Я лизнув ложку. — deniko

    ruЯ облизнул ложку. — marafon

  4. Could we have a spoon?

    Можна нам ложку? — deniko

    deKönnten wir einen Löffel haben? — Zaghawa

  5. This spoon is for soup.

    Ця ложка — для супу. — deniko

    ruЭта ложка - для супа. — marafon

    deDieser Löffel ist für Suppe gedacht. — al_ex_an_der

Translations

4 languages
Deutsch
to lie together:

Origin

From Middle English spoon, spoune, spone, spon (“spoon, chip of wood”), from Old English s

From 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”).

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Forms

spoons, spooning, spooned, spooned
Base formspoon · to spoon
3rd person singularspoons
Present participlespooning
Past simplespooned
Past participlespooned

regular · Lesson

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theyspoon
he, she, itspoons

Past simpleLesson

all personsspooned

Present perfectLesson

I, you, we, theyhave spooned
he, she, ithas spooned

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill spoon

Synonyms

1 synonyms
Close in meaning
  • snuggle and lie in a position where one person faces the back of the others:smooch

Word family

8 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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