spooning
Meaning of spooning
- put (food) into or on something with a spoon.
Rosie spooned sugar into her mug
- (of two people) behave in an amorous way; kiss and cuddle.
I saw them spooning on the beach
- 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
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