wooden spoon
noun
a booby prize, esp in sporting contests
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When Phil showed him how his poverty was his calamity he said, "Ay, ay, I'm only a wooden-spoon man."
The ManxmanHall Caine
She set him on his intellectual pins by commencing a conversation on the wooden-spoon exhibition.
Miss Ravenel's conversion from secession to loyaltyJ. W. de Forest