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eggspoon

eggspoon is the alternative form of egg spoon.

Meaning of egg spoon

Noun

egg spoon (plural egg spoons)

  1. A spoon, usually smaller than a teaspoon, which is used for eating a boiled egg from a hole made in the shell; the bowl of the spoon is shaped to make it easier to scoop out the contents of the eggshell.
    • [T]he egg spoon must also be untarnishable—stainless steel, or horn. I've never seen a gold egg spoon, but I'm sure it would do. Whatever the material, the spoon has to have a small bowl with a fine edge on it: a thick edge can't coax all the egg white off the inside of the shell. The handle is...2017, Ursula K[roeber] Le Guin, “Without Egg”, in No Time to Spare: Thinking about What Matters, New York, N.Y.: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, →ISBN, part 4 (Rewards), page 176

Forms of eggspoon

pluraleggspoons

Words formed from eggspoon

Questions about eggspoon

What is eggspoon the alternative form of?
Eggspoon is the alternative form of egg spoon.

Words near eggspoon in the dictionary

  1. eggshellfuls
  2. eggshells
  3. eggshellsful
  4. eggsperience
  5. eggsperiences
  6. eggspoon
  7. eggspoonful
  8. eggspoonfuls
  9. eggspoons
  10. eggspoonsful
  11. eggspot

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