soup ladle
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1.1
- noun
- /suːp ˈleɪdəl/
:
cucharón
Examples
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Sure, I'll use a soup ladle or whatever the heck this is, and you go little tasty, yummy brownie mix.
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She waves to him and pulls the rest of the way out of the garage, revealing the ax handle still embedded in the front of the car, its handle sharply angled up from the hood like a soup ladle.
Fiction book (1992) -
She served the hot soup into bowls using a soup ladle.
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After cooking the stew, he carefully transferred it to a serving dish with a soup ladle.
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Make sure to use a soup ladle to avoid spills when serving the broth.
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Morphology
The meaning is directly and transparently derived from combining 'soup' (a liquid food) with 'ladle' (a large serving spoon), so a learner who knows both words can infer it is a ladle used for serving soup. This compositional, modifier+noun structure is common cross-linguistically and follows standard noun-noun modification patterns, making it immediately comprehensible to a B1 learner.
Etymology
Soup ladle is a simple, literal name for a deep, long-handled ladle used to scoop hot soup from a pot. Picture filling bowls with that big spoon — so it means 'a large spoon for serving soup'.