Spoon Guide, Meaning , Facts, Information and Description

Alternate meanings: Spoon (band) or Spoon (Javascript)

A spoon is a common eating utensil, or item of cutlery, like a small spade, that occurs in a number of sizes and forms and is also suitable for liquid food and for stirring, and can have a number of other uses, including: courtship, combat and musical entertainment, strangely enough. Obviously, the most widely used and well known use is for assistance in eating.

A combination utensil of spoon and fork, the spork, has become popular in the past couple of decades.

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1 Spoon types 2 Spoon Quotes 3 Related topics

Spoon types

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• Dessert spoon - between tablespoon and teaspoon in size
• Egg spoon - used for hens' eggs; smaller than a teaspoon
• Ladle - spoon with a long handle attached vertically; for liquids
• Love spoon - a carved wooden spoon given as a token of betrothal
• Musical spoons - because they are played in pairs
• Runcible spoon - invented by Edward Lear in The Owl and the Pussycat, but later given a real meaning
• Serving spoon
• Silver spoon - a small spoon given to a newborn child to ensure good fortune; used as a metaphor for someone born to riches
• Slotted spoon
• Soup spoon - different types:
  • metal soup spoon similar in shape to a teaspoon
  • Chinese soup spoon - usually made from ceramic and of a distinct Chinese soup spoon shape
• Spoodle - a cross between a spoon and a ladle, often used in European cooking, particularly for soups and stews
• Tablespoon
• Teaspoon
• Wooden spoon - sometimes given symbolically as a compensation for losing a competition

Babies can often be entertained for extended periods by being shown their reflection in the two different sides of a metal spoon. This fascination can also be seen in some types of domestic birds, such as lovebirds and budgerigars.

Spoon Quotes

• "Spoon!!!" - Battle cry of The Tick, The Tick
• From the movie Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves:
  • "Locksley! I'm gonna cut your heart out with a spoon." -Sheriff of Nottingham
  • "Why a spoon cousin? Why not an axe?" -Guy of Gisbourne
  • "Because it's dull, you twit, it'll hurt more." -Sheriff
• "We found this spoon sir." -Sergeant, The Life of Brian
• "And the cat's in the cradle with the silver spoon, Little Boy Blue, and the Man in the Moon" - "Cats in the Cradle", performed by Harry Chapin and Ugly Kid Joe
• "There is no spoon." -Spoon Boy, The Matrix
• "There is no spoon?" -Neo, The Matrix
• "A sweet lounge lizard, with a silver spoon" -Motorhead, Stone Dead Forever
• "Do you know that's the third spoon I've heard drop this month?" -Algy Longworth, Bulldog Drummond
• "That tall drink of water with the silver spoon up his ass." -Red, The Shawshank Redemption
• "They'll eat their words with a fork and spoon, and watch 'em! They'll hit the road and all be surfin' soon." -The Beach Boys, "Catch A Wave"
• "She came in through the bathroom window, protected by a silver spoon" The Beatles
• Spoon = Sporadic Purveyor Of Obscure kNowledge
• "And the dish ran away with the spoon." - from a nursery rhyme
• "Mike: I think I have a plan here: using mainly spoons, we dig a tunnel under the city and release it into the wild." from Monsters Inc

Related topics

• knife
• fork
• tablespoon
• spork

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