We might have spooned before the wind as well as they.
Pepys.
Spoon, n. [OE. spon, AS. spn, a chip; akin to D. spaan, G. span, Dan.
spaan, Sw. spån, Icel. spánn, spónn, a chip, a spoon. √170. Cf.
Span- new.] 1. An implement consisting of a small bowl (usually a
shallow oval) with a handle, used especially in preparing or eating
food.
"Therefore behoveth him a full long spoon That shall eat with a
fiend," thus heard I say.
Chaucer.
He must have a long spoon that must eat with the devil.
Shak.
2. Anything which resembles a spoon in shape; esp. (Fishing), a spoon
bait.