Meaning

1 senses
  1. An eating utensil shaped like a spoon, the bowl of which is divided into tines like those of a fork, and so has the function of both implements; some sporks have a serrated edge so they can also function as a knife.

    Göffel

    ло́жка-ви́лкаlóžka-vílka

    trademark for a plastic eating utensil that has both tines and a bowl like a spoon

Examples

2 sentences
  1. The sporks are still in the dishwasher?

    Ложко-виделки все ще в посудомийній машині? — deniko

    deSind die Göffel noch in der Geschirrspülmaschine? — User4473

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  2. They only gave me a spork to eat it with.

    deIch bekam zum Essen nur einen Göffel. — Waldelfe · CC BY 2.0 FR

Translations

7 languages
Русский
By meaning 1
eating utensil:
Deutsch
By meaning 1
eating utensil:

Origin

Blend of spoon + fork; originally a trademark. Doublet of fpoon.

Blend of spoon + fork; originally a trademark. Doublet of fpoon.

Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0 · source

Forms

plural: sporks
Singularspork
Pluralsporks

regular

Synonyms

3 synonyms

Word family

2 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary

Dictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.

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