WOODEN SPOON

Meaning of WOODEN SPOON in English

■ noun Brit. a real or imaginary prize awarded to the person who is last in a race or competition.

Origin

orig. a spoon given to the candidate coming last in the Cambridge mathematical tripos.

Concise Oxford English vocab. Сжатый оксфордский словарь английского языка. 2004

WOODEN SPOON — noun 1. : a spoon made of wood presented originally at Cambridge University to the man ranking lowest among those …
Webster's New International English Dictionary
WOODEN SPOON — noun a spoon made of wood, used in cooking for stirring and mixing • IDIOMS - get, win, take, etc. …
Oxford Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
WOODEN SPOON — ˌwooden ˈspoon BrE AmE noun [countable] 1 . a large spoon made of wood, used to mix things when cooking …
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
WOODEN SPOON — ( wooden spoons) 1. A wooden spoon is a spoon that is used for stirring sauces and for mixing ingredients …
Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
WOODEN SPOON — (~s) 1. A ~ is a spoon that is used for stirring sauces and for mixing ingredients in cooking. It …
Collins COBUILD - Толковый словарь английского языка для изучающих язык
WOODEN SPOON — noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ Add the flour, semolina and currants and stir into the batter with a wooden spoon …
Longman DOCE5 Extras English vocabulary
WOODEN SPOON — (Cambridge.) The last junior optime. See WRANGLER, OPTIME.
Slang English vocab
WOODEN SPOON — ист. шутл. деревянная ложка (приз, присуждавшийся студенту, занявшему последнее место на выпускном экзамене по математике [mathematical tripos] в Кембриджском университете …
Англо-Русский словарь Britain
WOODEN SPOON — последнее место (в состязании)
Большой Англо-Русский словарь
WOODEN SPOON — Поварешка
Американский Англо-Русский словарь
WOODEN SPOON — последнее место (в состязании)
Англо-Русско-Английский словарь общей лексики - Сборник из лучших словарей
WOODEN SPOON — последнее место (в состязании)
Англо-Русский словарь Tiger
WOODEN SPOON — последнее место
English-Russian-dictionary - Bed release
WOODEN SPOON — последнее место
English-Russian-dictionary - Bed release
WOODEN SPOON — последнее место ( в состязании )
Англо-Русский словарь по общей лексике
WOODEN SPOON — последнее место (в состязании)
Англо-Русский словарь общей лексики
WOODEN SPOON — последнее место (в состязании)
Англо-Русский словарь Мюллера - 24 редакция
WOODEN SPOON — последнее место (в состязании)
Англо-Русский словарь Мюллера - редакция bed
WOODEN SPOON — последнее место (в состязании)
Англо-Русский дополнительный словарь
WOODEN SPOON — ист. шутл. деревянная ложка (приз, присуждавшийся студенту, занявшему последнее место на выпускном экзамене по математике [mathematical tripos] в Кембриджском университете [Cambridge …
Великобритания - Лингвострановедческий словарь
WOODEN SPOON — последнее место (в состязании)
Новый большой Англо-Русский словарь
SPOON — I. ˈspün sometimes ˈspu̇n noun ( -s ) Etymology: Middle English spone, spoon, from Old English spōn; akin to Old …
Webster's New International English Dictionary
WOODEN — ˈwu̇d ə n adjective ( sometimes -er/-est ) 1. a. : made or consisting wholly or sometimes partly of wood …
Webster's New International English Dictionary
WOODEN — (a.) Made or consisting of wood; pertaining to, or resembling, wood; as, a wooden box; a wooden leg; a wooden …
Английский словарь Webster
SPOON — (n.) Anything which resembles a spoon in shape; esp. (Fishing), a spoon bait.
Английский словарь Webster
SPOON — (v. i.) In croquet, golf, etc., to spoon a ball.
Английский словарь Webster
SPOON — (v. i.) To fish with a spoon bait.
Английский словарь Webster
SPOON — (v. t.) To catch by fishing with a spoon bait.
Английский словарь Webster
WOODEN — ( a. ) Made or consisting of wood; pertaining to, or resembling, wood; as, a wooden box; a wooden leg; …
Webster's Revised Unabridged English Dictionary
SPOON — ( v. t. ) To take up in, or as in, a spoon.
Webster's Revised Unabridged English Dictionary
SPOON — ( n. ) Anything which resembles a spoon in shape; esp. (Fishing), a spoon bait.
Webster's Revised Unabridged English Dictionary
WOODEN — — woodenly , adv. — woodenness , n. /wood"n/ , adj. 1. consisting or made of wood; wood: a wooden …
Random House Webster's Unabridged English Dictionary
SPOON — — spoonless , adj. — spoonlike , adj. /spoohn/ , n. 1. a utensil for use in eating, stirring, measuring, …
Random House Webster's Unabridged English Dictionary
SPOON — v. take up in a spoon, transfer in a spoon; eat with a spoon; behave in an affectionate or sentimental …
Толковый словарь английского языка - Редакция bed
SPOON — I. ˈspün noun Etymology: Middle English, from Old English spōn splinter, chip; akin to Old High German spān splinter, chip …
Merriam-Webster's Collegiate English vocabulary
WOODEN — adjective Date: 1538 1. : made or consisting of wood 2. : lacking ease or flexibility : awkwardly stiff a …
Merriam-Webster's Collegiate English vocabulary
WOODEN — adj clumsy; awkward; ungainly; stiff; spiritless. 2. wooden ·adj made or consisting of wood; pertaining to, or resembling, wood; as, …
Webster English vocab
SPOON — noun fig.: a simpleton; a spooney. 2. spoon ·vi ·see spoom. 3. spoon ·vt to take up in, or as …
Webster English vocab
SPOON — [spoon] n [ME, fr. OE spon splinter, chip; akin to OHG span splinter, chip] (14c) 1: an eating or cooking …
Merriam-Webster English vocab
WOODEN — wooden BrE AmE ˈwʊd ə n ▷ wooden|ly li ▷ wooden|ness nəs nɪs ▶ ˌ wooden ˈ spoon BrE AmE
Longman Pronunciation English Dictionary
SPOON — spoon BrE AmE spuːn ▷ spooned spuːnd ▷ spooning ˈspuːn ɪŋ ▷ spoons spuːnz
Longman Pronunciation English Dictionary
WOODEN — / ˈwʊdn; NAmE / adjective 1. [ usually before noun ] made of wood : a wooden box 2. not …
Oxford Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
SPOON — / spuːn; NAmE / noun , verb ■ noun 1. a tool that has a handle with a shallow bowl …
Oxford Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
WOODEN — Wooden, John BrE AmE (1910–) a US college ↑ basketball ↑ coach (=someone who trains people and teams) , thought …
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
WOODEN — wood ‧ en S3 W3 /ˈwʊdn/ BrE AmE adjective [ Word Family: adjective : ↑ wooded , ↑ wooden , …
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
SPOON — I. spoon 1 S3 /spuːn/ BrE AmE noun [countable] [ Language: Old English ; Origin: spon 'piece of wood split …
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
WOODEN — adj. 1 made of wood. 2 like wood. 3 a stiff, clumsy, or stilted; without animation or flexibility (wooden movements; …
Английский основной разговорный словарь
SPOON — n. & v. --n. 1 a a utensil consisting of an oval or round bowl and a handle for conveying …
Английский основной разговорный словарь
WOODEN — adj. 1 made of wood. 2 like wood. 3 a stiff, clumsy, or stilted; without animation or flexibility (wooden movements; …
Concise Oxford English Dictionary
SPOON — n. & v. n. 1 a a utensil consisting of an oval or round bowl and a handle for conveying …
Concise Oxford English Dictionary
WOODEN — adj.1 made of wood. 2 like wood. 3 a stiff, clumsy, or stilted; without animation or flexibility (wooden movements; a …
Oxford English vocab
SPOON — n. & v. --n. 1. a a utensil consisting of an oval or round bowl and a handle for conveying …
Oxford English vocab
WOODEN — Frequency: The word is one of the 3000 most common words in English. 1. Wooden objects are made of wood. …
Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
SPOON — ( spoons, spooning, spooned) 1. A spoon is an object used for eating, stirring, and serving food. One end of …
Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
WOODEN — Frequency: The word is one of the 3000 most common words in English. 1. Wooden objects are made of wood. …
Collins COBUILD - Толковый словарь английского языка для изучающих язык
WOODEN — adjective COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES a brick/stone/wooden building ▪ The farmhouse is a long stone building about a century old. …
Longman DOCE5 Extras English vocabulary
SPOON — I. noun COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES a soup spoon (= a spoon with a rounder part that you eat from …
Longman DOCE5 Extras English vocabulary
WOODEN — adj. Wooden is used with these nouns: ↑ acting , ↑ barracks , ↑ barrel , ↑ barricade , ↑ …
Oxford Collocations English Dictionary
SPOON — I. noun ADJECTIVE ▪ slotted ▪ Remove the onions with a slotted ~. ▪ serving , soup , sugar ▪ …
Oxford Collocations English Dictionary
WOODEN — adj. 25B6; adjective a wooden door : WOOD, timber, woody; ligneous. wooden acting : STILTED, stiff, unnatural, awkward, leaden; dry, …
Concise Oxford Thesaurus English vocabulary
WOODEN — (1910– ) a successful US university basketball manager at UCLA (1948–75). His teams were US National Champions 10 times (1964–5, …
Oxford Guide to British and American Culture English vocabulary
WOODEN — adj. 1 wood, woody, ligneous, xyloid The wooden cabinet for the kitchen is almost finished 2 stiff, rigid, artificial, clumsy, …
Oxford Thesaurus English vocab
WOODEN — прил. 1) деревянный (тж. перен.) wooden walls Syn : ligneous; lifeless 2) лапидарный, топорный (о стиле, слоге) ∙ wooden head …
Большой Англо-Русский словарь
SPOON — I 1. сущ. 1) ложка dessert spoon ≈ десертная ложка measuring spoon ≈ мерная ложка soup spoon ≈ столовая ложка …
Большой Англо-Русский словарь

Concise Oxford English vocab

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