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the only utensil designed to fail gracefully at everything sharp food demands.
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.
- musical
- Played as a percussion instrument by clacking two together
- prison ingenuity
- Sharpened into shanks despite zero edges
- oldest tool
- Predate forks by thousands of years
- spooning origin
- Stacked spoons inspired the cuddling term
- birth gift
- Born wealthy means a silver spoon literally
the coronation spoon — used in british coronations since 1661, most recently for king charles iii in 2023
las lajas sanctuary spoon — 16th-century silver spoon from the colombian shrine, now a museum artifact
kaliph's golden spoon — topkapi palace spoon from ottoman empire, istanbul, weighs 1.3 kg and is among world's largest