spoons

See also: Spoons

English

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /spuːnz/
  • Audio (Southern England):(file)
  • Audio (US):(file)
  • Rhymes: -uːnz

Adjective

spoons (not comparable)

  1. (slang, archaic) Foolishly infatuated with; having a romantic crush on (used with on).
    • 1922, Lydia Miller Middleton, The Happy Adventures:
      " […] You look very fit, Grannie, and Jerry says Aunt Mary is too young to be my aunt; I believe he is spoons on her already - what ho! my Uncle Jerry! Come and be introduced."
    • 1876, The Young Ladies' Journal, page 548:
      […] she will have grown older and wiser by that time; besides, I'm awful spoons on her—she is the sweetest little thing.

Noun

spoons pl (plural only)

  1. A child's card game.
  2. (music) A pair of spoons used as a musical instrument by tapping them on parts of the body.

See also

  • bones (musical instrument)

Noun

spoons

  1. plural of spoon

Derived terms

Verb

spoons

  1. third-person singular simple present indicative of spoon

Further reading

Anagrams

This article is issued from Wiktionary. The text is available under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 unless otherwise noted. Additional terms may apply for the media files.