spoons
/spuːnz/
spoons adjective: foolishly infatuated with; having a romantic crush on (used with on). Also the plural of spoon.
Adjective
spoons (not comparable)
- Foolishly infatuated with; having a romantic crush on (used with on).
- "[…] 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."1922, Lydia Miller Middleton, The Happy Adventures
- […] she will have grown older and wiser by that time; besides, I'm awful spoons on her—she is the sweetest little thing.1876, The Young Ladies' Journal, page 548
Noun
spoons pl (plural only)
- A child's card game.
- A pair of spoons used as a musical instrument by tapping them on parts of the body.
Proper noun capitalized: Spoons
Spoons
- Any pub belonging to the Wetherspoons chain.
- We took up the recommendation of the Pheasant in Brill, which is a lovely pub but which sadly only did food until 2 which we'd missed, so went to Spoons in Bicester for a late lunch instead, via a quick inspection of the charming little church in Ludgershall.2007, Sir Benjamin Nunn, “Re: good pubs near brill / verney jct lines?”, in uk.railway (Usenet)
- We went to Spoons but it was too busy so went across to The Punch House which I'm glad we did as the food was delicious. I had wild rice, nut and honey bake.2014, Naomi Rettig, One More Year On Facebook, page 205
Also used as
spoons is also the plural of spoon.
spoons is also the third-person singular simple present indicative of spoon.
spoons meaning in Malayalam and Nepali
spoons in Malayalam
- സ്പൂണുകൾ
spoons in Nepali
- स्पुनहरू
Origin of spoons
Shortening.
Words formed from spoons
Phrases with spoons
- bar spoons
- big spoons
- ear spoons
- egg spoons
- love spoons
- salt spoons
- shoe spoons
- soup spoons
- tire spoons
- caddy spoons
- level spoons
- salad spoons
24 more phrasesFewer phrases
- sugar spoons
- caviar spoons
- coffee spoons
- greasy spoons
- little spoons
- monkey spoons
- out of spoons
- wooden spoons
- apostle spoons
- baffing spoons
- dessert spoons
- greasey spoons
- parfait spoons
- serving spoons
- slipper spoons
- slotted spoons
- absinthe spoons
- runcible spoons
- spoons position
- measuring spoons
- grapefruit spoons
- spoons of Diocles
- Bohemian ear spoons
- deflagrating spoons
Words that rhyme with spoons
Questions about spoons
- What does spoons mean?
- Spoons means foolishly infatuated with; having a romantic crush on (used with on).
- What is spoons in Malayalam?
- Spoons in Malayalam is സ്പൂണുകൾ. See Spoons meaning in Malayalam.
- What part of speech is spoons?
- Spoons can be an adjective, a noun or a proper noun.
- How do you pronounce spoons?
- Spoons is pronounced /spuːnz/.
Words near spoons in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: spoons (page history and authors); Spoons (page history and authors); spoons (Malayalam, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); spoons (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). 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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