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spooner
/ˈspuːnɚ/
name 3noun 2verb 1
Definitions
noun
1
One who spoons; one who engages in spooning.
2
One who spoons; one who engages in spooning.
verb
1
To utter a spoonerism.
Whisking along the north wing from interviewing the Secretary, his gown bellying out behind him like a black cloud, Tired Tim heard it, as he wondered for the fourth time if it had been quite in order for Miss Delaney to giggle when he had spoonered : "Will you please tell the Under-Matron to let all the maids off to see His Lordship the Bishop of Iona conduct a fornication in chapel at four o'clock.
Horner couldn t possibly say things like that, especially the words he spoonered out instead of "moody-blinded," but Horner said respectfully couldn't care less.
name
1
A surname.
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A placename:
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