different between spoon vs dole

English

Pronunciation

• enPR: spo?on
  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /spu?n/
  • (General American) IPA^(key): /spun/
• Rhymes: -u?n

Etymology 1

From Middle English spoon, spoune, spone, spon (“spoon, chip of wood”), from Old English sp?n (“sliver, chip of wood, shaving”), from Proto-Germanic *sp?nuz (“chip, flake, shaving”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)peh?- (“chip, shaving, log, length of wood”).

Cognate with Scots spun, spon (“spoon, shingle”), West Frisian spoen, Dutch spaan (“chip, flinders”), German Span (“chip, flake, shaving”), Faroese spónur (“wood chip; spoon”), Ancient Greek ???? (sph?n, “wedge”). Eclipsed non-native Middle English cuculer and coclear (“spoon”) both ultimately borrowed from the Latin.

The "unit of energy" semse was coined by writer, speaker and lupus patient advocate Christine Miserandino in 2003.

Noun

spoon (plural spoons)

1. An implement for eating or serving; a scooped utensil whose long handle is straight, in contrast to a ladle.
2. An implement for stirring food while being prepared; a wooden spoon.
3. A measure that will fit into a spoon; a spoonful.
4. (golf, archaic) A wooden-headed golf club with moderate loft, similar to the modern three wood.
5. (slang) An oar.
   • 1877, The Country (volumes 1-2, page 339)

     To this class college rowing offers no attractions or place, nor are they generally looked upon by the artists of the "spoons" as a desirable addition […]

6. (fishing) A type of metal lure resembling the concave head of a tablespoon.
7. (dentistry, informal) A spoon excavator.
8. (figuratively, slang, archaic) A simpleton, a spooney.
   • 1872, George Eliot, Middlemarch, Chapter 23

     To get all the advantages of being with men of this sort, you must know how to draw your inferences and not be a spoon who takes things literally.

9. (US, military) A safety handle on a hand grenade, a trigger.
10. (slang) A metaphoric unit of energy available for daily activities.

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

spoon (third-person singular simple present spoons, present participle spooning, simple past and past participle spooned)

1. To serve using a spoon; to transfer (something) with a spoon.
2. (intransitive, dated) To flirt; to make advances; to court, to interact romantically or amorously.
   • 1913, D.H. Lawrence, Sons and Lovers, chapter 7

     Do you think we spoon and do? We only talk.

3. (transitive or intransitive, informal, of persons) To lie nestled front-to-back, following the contours of the bodies, in a manner reminiscent of stacked spoons.
   • 1905 "If the Man in the Moon were a Coon"

     No roaming 'round the park at night / No spooning in the bright moonlight

4. (tennis, golf, croquet) To hit (the ball) weakly, pushing it with a lifting motion, instead of striking with an audible knock.
5. (intransitive) To fish with a concave spoon bait.
6. (transitive) To catch by fishing with a concave spoon bait.
   • 1888, Mrs. Humphry Ward, Robert Elsmere

     He had with him all the tackle necessary for spooning pike.

Derived terms

Translations

See also

• cutlery
• ladle
• silverware

Etymology 2

Origin uncertain. Compare spoom.

Verb

spoon (third-person singular simple present spoons, present participle spooning, simple past and past participle spooned)

1. Alternative form of spoom

   • We might have spooned before the wind as well as they.

Derived terms

• spoon-drift

Translations

Anagrams

• Poons, no-ops, opson, poons, snoop

Middle English

Noun

spoon

1. Alternative form of spone

English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /d??l/, /d??l/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /do?l/
• Rhymes: -??l
• Homophone: dhole

Etymology 1

From Middle English dol, from Old English d?l (“portion, share, division, allotment”), from Proto-Germanic *dail? (“part, deal”), from Proto-Indo-European *d?ayl- (“part, watershed”). Cognate with Old Church Slavonic ?????? (d?liti, “divide”). More at deal.

Verb

dole (third-person singular simple present doles, present participle doling, simple past and past participle doled)

1. To distribute in small amounts; to share out small portions of a meager resource.

Derived terms

• dole out

Translations

Noun

dole

1. Money or other goods given as charity.
   • c. 1690, John Dryden, Eleonora

     So sure the dole, so ready at their call, / They stood prepar'd to see the manna fall.
2. Distribution; dealing; apportionment.
   • c. 1650s, John Cleveland, Upon Phillis Walking in a Morning before Sun-rising

     At her general dole, / Each receives his ancient soul.
3. (informal) Payment by the state to the unemployed.
   • 1996, Frank McCourt, Angela's Ashes, page 107,

     The men sit because they?re worn out from walking to the Labour Exchange every morning to sign for the dole, discussing the world’s problems and wondering what to do with the rest of the day.

   • 1997, Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, OECD Economic Surveys: Australia, page 67,

     The FY 1997/98 Commonwealth budget allocated funding of A$ 21.6 million to the Work for the Dole initiative for unemployed young people.

4. A boundary; a landmark.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Halliwell to this entry?)
5. (Britain, dialectal) A void space left in tillage.

Synonyms

• (payment by the state to the unemployed): pancrack (UK), pogey (Canada)

Derived terms

• (payment to support the unemployed): dole bludger

Translations

Etymology 2

From Middle English doell (“grief”), from Old French doel (compare French deuil), from Late Latin dolus, from Latin doleo.

Noun

dole (uncountable)

1. (archaic) A Sorrow or grief; dolour.
   • 1485, Thomas Malory, William Caxton, 1868, Morte Darthur, page 212,

     Sir, said Sir Gingalin, I wot not what knight he was, but well I wot that he sigheth, and maketh great dole.

   • But ten slow mornings past, and on the eleventh / Her father laid the letter in her hand, / And closed the hand upon it, and she died. / So that day there was dole in Astolat.

2. (law, Scotland) Dolus.

Anagrams

• Delo, Deol, Ledo, OLED, leod, lode, olde

Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?dol?]

Adverb

dole

1. down (at a lower place or position)

Antonyms

• naho?e

Related terms

• dol?

See also

• vlevo
• vpravo

Noun

dole m

1. vocative/locative singular of d?l

Further reading

• dole in P?íru?ní slovník jazyka ?eského, 1935–1957
• dole in Slovník spisovného jazyka ?eského, 1960–1971, 1989

Dutch

Verb

dole

1. (archaic) singular present subjunctive of dolen

Anagrams

• doel

French

Pronunciation

• Homophones: dolent, doles

Verb

dole

1. inflection of doler:
   1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
   2. second-person singular imperative

Latin

Verb

dol?

1. second-person singular present active imperative of dole?

Lower Sorbian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?d?l?/, [?d?l?]

Noun

dole

1. locative singular of do?

Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?d?.l?/

Noun

dole f

1. nominative/accusative/vocative plural of dola

Noun

dole m inan

1. locative/vocative singular of dó?

Serbo-Croatian

Alternative forms

• (Ijekavian): d?lje

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /dôle/
• Hyphenation: do?le

Adverb

d?le (Cyrillic spelling ?????)

1. down
2. below

Interjection

d?le (Cyrillic spelling ?????)

1. down

Yola

Etymology

From Middle English dol, from Old English d?l, from Proto-Germanic *dail?.

Noun

dole

1. A deal.

References

• Jacob Poole (1867) , William Barnes, editor, A glossary, with some pieces of verse, of the old dialect of the English colony in the baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, J. Russell Smith, ?ISBN

Zazaki

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [do?l?]
• Hyphenation: do?le

Alternative forms

• dol

Noun

dole f

1. A lake.

See also

• gol