Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to spoon
Participle: spooned
Gerund: spooning
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | spoon |
| you | spoon |
| he;she;it | spoons |
| we | spoon |
| you | spoon |
| they | spoon |
Perfect
| I | have spooned |
| you | have spooned |
| he;she;it | has spooned |
| we | have spooned |
| you | have spooned |
| they | have spooned |
Past
| I | spooned |
| you | spooned |
| he;she;it | spooned |
| we | spooned |
| you | spooned |
| they | spooned |
Pluperfect
| I | had spooned |
| you | had spooned |
| he;she;it | had spooned |
| we | had spooned |
| you | had spooned |
| they | had spooned |
Future
| I | will spoon |
| you | will spoon |
| he;she;it | will spoon |
| we | will spoon |
| you | will spoon |
| they | will spoon |
Future Perfect
| I | will have spooned |
| you | will have spooned |
| he;she;it | will have spooned |
| we | will have spooned |
| you | will have spooned |
| they | will have spooned |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | spoon |
| you | spoon |
| he;she;it | spoon |
| we | spoon |
| you | spoon |
| they | spoon |
Perfect
| I | have spooned |
| you | have spooned |
| he;she;it | have spooned |
| we | have spooned |
| you | have spooned |
| they | have spooned |
Imperfect
| I | spooned |
| you | spooned |
| he;she;it | spooned |
| we | spooned |
| you | spooned |
| they | spooned |
Pluperfect
| I | had spooned |
| you | had spooned |
| he;she;it | had spooned |
| we | had spooned |
| you | had spooned |
| they | had spooned |
Conditional
Present
| I | would spoon |
| you | would spoon |
| he;she;it | would spoon |
| we | would spoon |
| you | would spoon |
| they | would spoon |
Perfect
| I | would have spooned |
| you | would have spooned |
| he;she;it | would have spooned |
| we | would have spooned |
| you | would have spooned |
| they | would have spooned |
Imperative
| you | spoon |
| we | Let's spoon |
| you | spoon |
Verbs conjugated like 'spoon'
abandon,
abduct,
abear,
aberr,
abject,
abord,
abort,
abound,
abraid,
abray,
abrook,
abscind,
abscond,
absist,
absorb,
abstain,
abstract,
accend,
accent,
accept, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'spoon'
scoon,
spoof,
spook,
spool,
spoom,
spoor,
swoon,
apron,
coon,
croon,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
1. From Middle English spoon, spoune, spone, spon (“spoon, chip of wood”), from Old English spōn (“sliver, chip of wood, shaving”), from Proto-West Germanic *spānu, from Proto-Germanic *spēnuz (“chip, flake, shaving”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)peH- (“chip, shaving, log, length of wood”).
2. Cognate with Scots spun, spon (“spoon, shingle”), West Frisian spoen (“chip”), Dutch spaan (“chip, flinders”), German Span (“chip, flake, shaving”), Swedish spån (“chip, flake”), Norwegian Nynorsk spon (“chip, spoon”), Faroese spónur (“wood chip; spoon”), Ancient Greek σφήν (sphḗn, “wedge”)(though the connection to the Greek is likely impossible by modern reconstructions of PIE). Eclipsed non-native Middle English cuculer, coclear (“spoon”), from Old English cuculer, cuceler, cucler, borrowed from Latin cochlear (“spoon”).
3. The "metaphoric unit of personal energy" sense was coined by writer and disability advocate Christine Miserandino in 2003 (see spoon theory).
Sample Sentences
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Sarah spooned some apple sauce onto her plate.
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Talbot champed away, finally spooning in resignation with the tinned fruit salad, calm of mind reached with the last piece of cheese, all passion spent in the third drained coffee-cup. [1958, Anthony Burgess, The Enemy in the Blanket (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 365:]
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By the light of the silvery moon, / I want to spoon, / To my honey I'll croon love's tune, […] [1909, “By the Light of the Silvery Moon”, Ed[ward] Madden (lyrics), Gus Edwards (music), New York, N.Y.: Gus Edwards Music Pub Co, →OCLC, pages 4–5:]
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Do you think we spoon and do? We only talk. [1913, D[avid] H[erbert] Lawrence, chapter 7, in Sons and Lovers, London: Duckworth & Co. […], →OCLC:]
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Law is in the field; the Criminal at the wicket. If Law makes a mistake—sends down a loose ball or drops a catch—the Criminal scores a little or has another lease of life. But if he makes a mistake—if he lets a straight ball pass or spoons towards a steady man—he is done for. [1914, Ernest Bramah, Max Carrados:]
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Rosol spurned the chance to finish off a shallow second serve by spooning into the net, and a wild forehand took the set to 5-4, with the native of Prerov required to hold his serve for victory. [2012 June 28, Jamie Jackson, “Wimbledon 2012: Lukas Rosol shocked by miracle win over Rafael Nadal”, in the Guardian:]
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He had with him all the tackle necessary for spooning pike. [1888, Mrs. Humphry Ward, Robert Elsmere:]