Difference between Spoon and Spoonful

What is the difference between Spoon and Spoonful?

Spoon as a noun is an implement for eating or serving; a scooped utensil whose long handle is straight, in contrast to a ladle. while Spoonful as a noun is the amount that a spoon will hold, either level or heaped

Spoon

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To engage in petting or kissing. to turn to port and starboard erratically for short periods of time, as a sailing boat does when heading nearly into a wind that varies direction slightly to have a nervously ambivalent romantic rendez-vous, as young people had during the age of chaperones, from turning one's head toward and away from the other person as the sailing ship did. to lie nestled together front to back in a manner reminiscent of spoons laid side by side in a drawer; usually has a mild sexual connotation.

Part of speech: noun

Definition: An implement for eating or serving; a scooped utensil whose long handle is straight, in contrast to a ladle. An implement for stirring food while being prepared; a wooden spoon. A measure that will fit into a spoon; a spoonful. A wooden-headed golf club with moderate loft, similar to the modern three wood. A type of metal lure resembling the concave head of a table spoon. A spoon excavator. A simpleton, a spooney.

Example sentence: They dined on mince, and slices of quince, Which they ate with a runcible spoon; And hand in hand, on the edge of the sand, They danced by the light of the moon.

Spoonful

Part of speech: noun

Definition: the amount that a spoon will hold, either level or heaped

We hope you now know whether to use Spoon or Spoonful in your sentence.

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