Crossword clues for wooden spoon
wooden spoon
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
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.
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Clumsy; awkward; ungainly; stiff; spiritless. When a bold man is out of countenance, he makes a very wooden figure on it. --Collier. His singing was, I confess, a little wooden. --G. MacDonald. Wooden spoon.
(Cambridge University, Eng.) The last junior optime who takes a university degree, -- denoting one who is only fit to stay at home and stir porridge. ``We submit that a wooden spoon of our day would not be justified in calling Galileo and Napier blockheads because they never heard of the differential calculus.''
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In some American colleges, the lowest appointee of the junior year; sometimes, one especially popular in his class, without reference to scholarship. Formerly, it was a custom for classmates to present to this person a wooden spoon with formal ceremonies.
Wooden ware, a general name for buckets, bowls, and other articles of domestic use, made of wood.
Wooden wedding. See under Wedding.
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. 4 (context US college slang dated English) The lowest appointee of the junior year; sometimes, one especially popular in his class, without reference to scholarship. Formerly, it was a custom for classmates to present to this person a wooden spoon with formal ceremonies.
WordNet
n. a booby prize consisting of a spoon made of wood
a spoon made of wood
Wikipedia
A wooden spoon is a spoon made from wood, usually given to an individual or team which has come last in a competition, but sometimes also to runners-up. Examples range from the academic to sporting and more frivolous events. The term is of British origin and has spread to other Commonwealth countries.
Wooden Spoon may refer to:
- Wooden spoon, implement
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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, aka the Wooden Spoon-Seller's Sapphire
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.