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wooden spoon
Word definitions for wooden spoon in dictionaries
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ Add the flour, semolina and currants and stir into the batter with a wooden spoon . ▪ He heats up the sauce in a blue sauce-pan, stirring it with a wooden spoon . ▪ In the family trash they found the remnants of a broken wooden ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a booby prize consisting of a spoon made of wood a spoon made of wood
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 A spoon made from wood, commonly used in food preparation. 2 (context idiomatic English) An ironic prize for finishing last in a competition. 3 (context Cambridge University slang dated English) The last junior optime who takes a university degree. ...
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Wooden Spoon may refer to: Wooden spoon , implement Wooden spoon (award) Australian rugby league wooden spooners County Championship Wooden Spoons List of Australian Football League wooden spoons MLS Wooden Spoon Wooden Spoon Society Ruspoli Sapphire , ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Wooden \Wood"en\, a. Made or consisting of wood; pertaining to, or resembling, wood; as, a wooden box; a wooden leg; a wooden wedding. Clumsy; awkward; ungainly; stiff; spiritless. When a bold man is out of countenance, he makes a very wooden figure on ...
Usage examples of wooden spoon.
For terrible she approaches, raising an angular arm: and in the hand on the arm the wooden spoon casts its shadow on curly-headed Lorchen and grows bigger and bigger, fatter and fatter, more and more.
Mostly she just whisks all about, ruling her domain with a wooden spoon she wields like a scepter, tasting food and scolding cooks, assistants, and scullions.
She had worked there for as long as he could remember, and had whacked his hands with a wooden spoon whenever shed caught him trying to sneak one of the petit fours she baked for Noelles luncheons.
She had worked there for as long as he could remember, and had whacked his hands with a wooden spoon whenever she’.
I picked up a large wooden spoon and waggled it alluringly toward Jem, who was oscillating back-ward and forward on his hands and knees, emitting horrible whining noises.
As to your father, would that Id been born a peasant woman with a big wooden spoon, I might have been able to beat some sense into his fat head.
Holding her aluminum tray, she moved from body to body, spreading maple-syrup-colored wax where it was needed with a flat wooden spoon, and pressing in strips of gauze before it hardened.
The boy chased his father around and around the fountain at Stronghold, slipping on new spring grass and unsteady three-year-old legs, giggling as he waved a wooden spoon as a sword.