spooning

Meaning of spooning

verb, gerund or present participle
  1. put (food) into or on something with a spoon.
    Rosie spooned sugar into her mug
  2. (of two people) behave in an amorous way; kiss and cuddle.
    I saw them spooning on the beach
  3. hit (a ball) up into the air with a soft or weak stroke.
    he spooned his shot high over the bar

Old English spōn ‘chip of wood’, of Germanic origin; related to German Span ‘shaving’. spoon (sense 1 of the noun) is of Scandinavian origin. The verb dates from the early 18th century.

Information about spooning

  • It is a verb.
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Hyphenation of spooning

spoon-ing

  • It consists of 2 syllables and 8 chars.
  • spooning is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables

Anagrams of spooning

snooping

Words that rhyme with spooning

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