wooden spoon
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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Tomato sauce flies off her wooden spoon, splattering the chipped yellow cabinets.
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But, with a stellar generation of players heading into retirement, they have lost 11 straight Six Nations matches, with successive wooden spoon finishes to show from 2024 and 2025.
From BBC
She went into the kitchen and got two big wooden spoons from a drawer.
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Aunt Pretty stuck a wooden spoon dripping with catsup in Pa’s mouth.
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The ice cream cups came with little wooden spoons, and she unwrapped them both and handed the boy one.
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