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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
soup spoon
noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ He picked up his soup spoon and banged it twice on the table.
▪ His wife fiddled with her spoons, putting the dessert spoon into the curve of the soup spoon.
WordNet
soup spoon

n. a spoon with a rounded bowl for eating soup [syn: soupspoon]

Wikipedia
Soup spoon

A soup spoon is a type of spoon with a large or rounded bowl, used for consuming soup. The term can either refer to the British soup spoon or the Chinese spoon.

Usage examples of "soup spoon".

She peered eagerly into her soup plate to see what it contained, then picked up her soup spoon.

He sets up his San Miguel, an empty bowl, an exceptionally large soup spoon--so large that most European cultures would identify it as a serving spoon and most Asian ones as a horticultural implement.

I wanted to move her to the cabin, but at the moment I was not up to lifting anything heavier than a soup spoon.

Julie quickly lifted her soup spoon and, giving him a gentle nudge with her elbow, demonstrated how the soup was to be eaten.

It declaimed this last, waving the soup spoon with sufficient force to throw droplets around the room.

Then he looked up and wondered if a grown man had ever been beaten to death with a soup spoon.

She is slowly scooping up popcorn in a big soup spoon and sliding it into her mouth.

Hoke stopped eating for a moment, to see if she was going to attack her gooey bowl with chopsticks, but she began to eat with a soup spoon.

Stephen lifted searching eyes above the soup spoon as he sucked the liquid over his teeth.

As Tommy started to protest, standing to dig money out of his jeans pocket, Jody picked up her soup spoon and brandished it threateningly.

She snorted out a laugh and dropped her soup spoon, then bit her lip, hard, to stop.