WOODEN SPOON

Meaning of WOODEN SPOON in English

noun

1. : a spoon made of wood presented originally at Cambridge University to the man ranking lowest among those taking honors in the mathematical tripos and at other colleges and universities to other selected recipients

2. : the recipient of a wooden spoon

Webster's New International English Dictionary. Новый международный словарь английского языка Webster. 2012

WOODEN SPOON — ■ noun Brit. a real or imaginary prize awarded to the person who is last in a race or competition. …
Concise Oxford English vocab
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

Webster's New International English Dictionary

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