dessert spoon
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1.5
- noun
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cuchara de postre
- The table was beautifully set, complete with a dessert spoon beside each plate.
- fork and dessert spoon
And now I make coffee and things, and I stir it with a dessert spoon.
- And now I make coffee and things, and I stir it with a dessert spoon.
Examples
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'I'll tell you who's to blame,' the old man said, banging his dessert spoon on the check tablecloth, 'that bitch who lives on Liberty Island.'
Blog text (5) -
Please use a dessert spoon for the pudding instead of a regular spoon.
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This is a dessert spoon.
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- The dessert spoons, honey.
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Sighing, Ginger picked up the silver dessert spoon and applied herself to the confection.
Blog text (20) -
There are dessert spoons and sauce spoons, and every different kind of spoon has different slots lined with green velvet for the silver to fit into, and he fits it in.
Fiction book (2000) -
Beginning with his first theft of a "love offering" for a fellow boy at school (68), it includes the pilfering of a candy wrapper that Williams had discarded and the lifting of a dessert spoon from the Langdon household.
Academic text (2008) -
After finishing dinner, I enjoyed my ice cream with a dessert spoon.
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Morphology
The noun-noun compound 'dessert spoon' is directly compositional: combining 'dessert' (the final sweet course) with 'spoon' (a utensil for eating) yields a spoon used for desserts. While precise size distinctions (vs. teaspoon or tablespoon) are cultural, the core meaning is immediately inferable by a B1 learner who knows both constituents and similar compounds exist cross-linguistically.
Etymology
The noun dessert spoon comes from the simple idea of a spoon for dessert. The word dessert means the sweet food after a meal and spoon is the eating tool, so the name points to a spoon a bit bigger than a teaspoon that you use 'for eating dessert'.