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scooper

scooper

4 2.7
A small bowl-shaped tool used to lift and serve soft foods like ice cream
  • noun
  • /ˈskuːpər/
translation icon : cucharón
  • Spoon the dough, using a large cookie scooper or a tablespoon, 2 inches apart onto the prepared baking sheets.
  • ice cream scooper
  • cream scooper

Today's pick is from Kelly Morrison via Instagram, and it's the rug leaf scooper.

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Examples

  • Put down the scooper and pick up the sauce.

  • No, I just, I take this nifty little pasta scooper, this call under this like spoon and I add it right into the pan.

  • I'll just get my scooper out.

  • OK, so I have his tin of food here and then I take my scooper and I always miss the bowl a lot.

  • I think I have another scooper that'll work too.

  • So then also when we moved, we mixed up the scoopers for his food.

  • Deeker ran outside to get a scooper and a jar.

    Fiction book (1993)
  • Using a cookie dough scooper, place dough on a baking sheet lined with parchment paper.

    Blog text (2)
  • So now I'm going to use this as my scooper, scoop up some of this moist soil, and we're going to fill up all of our containers.

  • When making cookies, I use a scooper to help portion the dough evenly.

Synonyms

scoop
vsscooper
16 2.1

A curved bowl used to lift things like ice cream and soil

is used by tools or people that pick up things with a bowl end
shovel
vsscooper
  • Specialized
9 3.9

A large machine with a scoop used for digging and moving earth

is generally smaller and can be a tool or person with a bowl end
shoveler
vsscooper
1 3.6

A person who uses a digging tool to move snow or soil

refers to either tools or people that lift things with a bowl end
scoop shovel
vsscooper
5.2

A large deep bucket on a machine used to lift and move dirt

is also about picking up material but covers tools and people too

How Big

ladle
18 2.1
scooper
4 2.7
tablespoon
26 1.0
teaspoon
83 1.0

Surface Forms

scooper singular
scoopers plural

Morphology

scooper = scoop (transparent) = scoop + er

The word is directly and regularly formed from 'scoop' + '-er', and the meaning of a tool or person for scooping is straightforward.

Etymology

Scooper comes from scoop, which means 'to take up' with a curved bowl, plus -er for a tool or person that does the action. So a scooper is something or someone that picks up, serves, or removes things by scooping, like an ice cream scooper.