spatula
Syllables: spat·u·la/ˈspætjʊlə/
spatula noun: a kitchen utensil consisting of a flat surface attached to a long handle, used for turning, lifting, or stirring food.
Noun
spatula (plural spatulas or spatulae or spatulæ)
- A kitchen utensil consisting of a flat surface attached to a long handle, used for turning, lifting, or stirring food.
- Synonyms:
- fish slice, fish trowel, turner, pancake turner, kitchen turner, cooking turner, flipper
- A kitchen utensil consisting of a flexible surface attached to a long handle, used for scraping the sides of bowls.
- Synonyms:
- scraper, dough scraper
- A palette knife.
- A thin hand tool, often made of nickel, for handling chemicals or other materials, when weighing, etc.
- A tongue depressor.
- A croupier's tool for turning up cards in a casino.
- The croupier delicately faced her other two cards with the tip of his spatula. A four! She had lost!1963, Ian Fleming, On Her Majesty's Secret Service
- A sclerotized, T-shaped plate in the prothorax of larvae of flies belonging to family Cecidomyiidae, the gall midges.
- The third instars are similar to other members of the genus except for a three-pronged spatula (typically two-pronged) and five lateral papillae (typically four) and with a nonbristled first instar.2015 November 2, Donald B. Thomas, John A. Goolsby, “Morphology of the Preimaginal Stages of Lasioptera donacis Coutin (Diptera: Cecidomyiidae), a Candidate Biocontrol Agent for Giant Arundo Cane”...
Verb
spatula (third-person singular simple present spatulas, present participle spatulaing, simple past and past participle spatulaed)
- To lift with or as if with a spatula.
- A book on Pastels referes [sic] to a rough Modeling paste to be spatulaed over cotton duck.1996 September 3, Macy Garcia, “What is the difference between Gesso, Modeling Paste & Texture Gel?”, in rec.arts.fine (Usenet)
- So if you get road-pizzaed, should you have to pay in order to get yourself spatulaed off of the street?1997 May 15, Toby, “Any same-sex marriage opposition?”, in alt.atheism (Usenet)
- To strike with a spatula.
- Or if you're a Ranma Character. I mean, they've been kicked/punched/thrown/hammered/spatulaed into the stratosphere enough times, you gotta figure they've developed a prretty high threshold of pain/injury.1997 March 14, arnoldkim, “Best way to get yourself killed in anime”, in rec.arts.anime.misc (Usenet)
- i.....am............dying.....................i'vebeen..............spatula'd........................to.........death...2000 February 15, erik, “*”, in alt.bored (Usenet)
spatula meaning in Tamil, Urdu, Bengali and Telugu
spatula in Tamil
- சிறு துடுப்பு, துடுப்பம், மருந்துக் கலவைக் கரண்டி, சிறப்புப் புலன்கள், தட்டைக்கரண்டி, வால் கரண்டி
spatula in Urdu
- ڈوا, کفگیر
spatula in Bengali
- kitchen utensil for turning and lifting
- কাফগীর kafgīr
spatula in Telugu
- spatula
- గరిటె gariṭe
More languagesFewer languages
- spatula in Assamese
- খন্তি khonti
- spatula in Tagalog
- espatula
- spatula in Arabic
- مِلْعَقَةُ الصَيْدَلِيِّ milʕaqatu ṣ-ṣaydaliyyi, محراك miḥrāk
- spatula in Malay
- sudip
- spatula in Indonesian
- sendok, spatula, spatel
- spatula in Persian
- کفگیر kafgir
- spatula in Thai
- ตะหลิว dtà-lǐu
- spatula in Vietnamese
- dao bay, que phết
Examples of spatula in a sentence
- Removing the cooked food from the oil with a slotted spatula lets it drain better.
- Use a thin spatula to turn blinchiki and brown the other side, about 30 seconds.
- She preferred a swift smack on the hinnerdale with the spatula.
Synonyms of spatula
Forms of spatula
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | spatulas |
| plural | spatulae |
| plural | spatulæ |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | spatulas |
| present participle | spatulaing |
| past participle | spatulaed |
| past | spatulaed |
Origin of spatula
Borrowed from Latin spatula (“a flat piece”), the diminutive form of spatha (“broad or flat tool”), from Ancient Greek σπάθη (spáthē, “a broad wood or metal blade”). Doublet of spauld; compare spatha and spathe.
Words formed from spatula
Questions about spatula
- What does spatula mean?
- Spatula means a kitchen utensil consisting of a flat surface attached to a long handle, used for turning, lifting, or stirring food.
- What is spatula in Tamil?
- Spatula in Tamil is சிறு துடுப்பு, துடுப்பம், மருந்துக் கலவைக் கரண்டி. See Spatula meaning in Tamil.
- What part of speech is spatula?
- Spatula can be a noun or a verb.
- How do you pronounce spatula?
- Spatula is pronounced /ˈspætjʊlə/.
- What is the plural of spatula?
- The plural of spatula is spatulas.
Words near spatula in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: spatula (page history and authors); spatula (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); spatula (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); గరిటె (Telugu) (page history and authors); খন্তি (Assamese) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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