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wooden spooners

wooden spooners is the plural of wooden spooner.

Meaning of wooden spooner

Noun

wooden spooner (plural wooden spooners)

  1. The "winner" of a wooden spoon: someone who finishes last in a competition or a member of a team that finishes last in a competition.
    • The talented 22-year-old is one of six players named to lead last year's wooden spooners, the group to be headed by James McDonald who had already been confirmed as the club's new captain.2009 January 30, AAP, “McLean back in charge”, in Herald Sun
    Synonyms:
    wooden spoonist

Questions about wooden spooners

What is wooden spooners the plural of?
Wooden spooners is the plural of wooden spooner.

Words near wooden spooners in the dictionary

  1. wooden onesie
  2. wooden overcoat
  3. wooden overcoats
  4. wooden spoon
  5. wooden spooner
  6. wooden spooners
  7. wooden spoonist
  8. wooden spoonists
  9. wooden spoons
  10. wooden surtout
  11. wooden surtouts

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