means The plural of spoon — rounded utensils for scooping and stirring liquids and soft foods — also used to mean cuddling while lying close, two bodies nested like stacked spoons.

from From Old English 'spon,' meaning a chip or splinter of wood — the earliest spoons were literally flat shavings used to eat with. It shares roots with the Old Norse 'spann' and German 'Span,' all pointing back to something thin and split from a larger piece. The romantic 'spooning' sense is much younger, blooming in the 19th century from the cozy image of nested cutlery; there's also an older British slang where 'spoony' meant foolishly sentimental or lovestruck, which likely fed the same warm spoon-pile of meaning.