Crossword clues for spooning
spooning
Wiktionary
n. The act of picking something up with a spoon. vb. (present participle of spoon English)
Wikipedia
Spooning or choreic hand is flexion and dorsal arching of the wrists and hyperextension of the fingers when the hands are extended sideways palms down.
Spooning is a recognized clinical sign in pediatric neurology during standard evaluation of the posture with extended arms. Spooning is often observed in children up to the age of 5.
In older ages it is a clinical sign seen in children with chorea.
" Spooning" of a patient's hands is a posture significant in medical diagnoses.
Spooning also may refer to:
- Use of ceramic spoons in traditional Chinese medical discipline Gua Sha
- Spooning (croquet), ball-handling technique
- Spoons sex position for intercourse embracing with back of one person's body meeting front of another's
- redirect Physical intimacy
Category:Human positions
In croquet, the term spooning has historically been used to refer to two ways of setting the ball into motion. The term is rarely used in the modern game and is not defined in the official laws.
Usage examples of "spooning".
Pretending to be setting an example, Prairie slid over to one of the work counters, wrestled a hot baloney into place, quickly sharpened a knife, and began to carve the object into steaming, purple-rimmed slices, which she arranged attractively on a serving platter, generously spooning more shiny grape liquid over the top, to be carried in and set on one of the mess-hall tables, where eaters would serve themselves except for the people in assertiveness programs, of course, who sat over at their own table and each got a separate plate with the food already on it.
He took a very close smot at me but then went back to being like kind and cheerful and spooning up the old eggiweg.
Excellent, he lied, reaching for the sugar bowl and spooning several heaped tea-spoonfuls of what he fervently hoped was demerara sugar into his cup.
She grabbed another small plate and started spooning the sauces on it, then handed it to Murray.
Rydell said, nodding in the direction of the carport and spooning cornflakes into his mouth.
He reached for his plate, spooning beans into his mouth and gazing up at the slopes where the elephants had disappeared.
I went down to find Margaret with two forks in a great piece of roasting ham, and Mrs Cakebread spooning honey on it.
But even now, even when he regretted the past most passionately, the memory of Arthur, spooning stew into his mouth at the kitchen table with the encrusted sauce bottle and the curded milk bottle on guard before him, made Rawlinson twitch with distaste.
Test for doneness by spooning up a small section of the middle of the topping.
I was spooning cookie batter onto a baking sheet when I heard this sound behind me, an odd little chirrup, and then something like a sigh, and when I turned, there was a monkey sitting right on this table.
Fran made him get her a Banana Boat Supreme and she sat against her door, two feet of seat between them, spooning up nuts and pineapple sauce and ersatz Dairy Queen ice cream.
The camp movie house, a few stray pines, the inevitable mess hall, and the whole enclosed in old wire, enriched by new wire: Matern, whom an English anti-fascist camp had spewed out, is spooning up barley grits behind the new barbed wire surrounding a discharge camp.
Charles continued, spooning up the last fragment of potato in thick beef stock, ".
Charles continued, spooning up the last fragment of potato in thick beef stock, “.
Hutton brought a brisk sawbones who peered and prodded at my stitches, dosed me with jalup, refused my demand for brandy to take away the taste, but agreed that I might have a rump steak instead of the beef tea which they'd been spooning into me in my unconscious state.