Dictionary

spork en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• /spɔɹk/ (Canada, General-American)
• (Southern-England) audio
• /ˈspoɹk/ (Canada, General-American)
• /ˈspɔːk/ (Received-Pronunciation)

Etymology

Blend of spoon + fork; originally a trademark. Doublet of fpoon.

Meanings

1. An eating utensil shaped like a spoon, the bowl of which is divided into tines like those of a fork, and so has the function of both implements; some sporks have a serrated edge so they can also function as a knife.

Forms

Coordinates

splade · runcible spoon · knork

Deriveds

sporklike · sporkful

Synonyms

fopoon · foon · fpoon

Translations (17)

ja 先割れスプーン (eating utensil) · ro furculingură (eating utensil) · ru ло́жка-ви́лка (eating utensil) · de Göffel (eating utensil) · mr स्पोर्क (eating utensil) · fr cuichette (eating utensil) · it forchiaio (eating utensil) · cmn 叉匙 (eating utensil) · mk лажовилушка (eating utensil) · pt garfolher (eating utensil) · sv skaffel (eating utensil) · fi lusikkahaarukka (eating utensil) · es cuchador (eating utensil) · cmn 叉勺 (eating utensil) · pl łyżkowidelec (eating utensil) · it cucchietta (eating utensil) · fr cuillère-fourchette (eating utensil)

spork en · VERB

Pronunciation

• /spɔɹk/ (Canada, General-American)
• (Southern-England) audio
• /ˈspoɹk/ (Canada, General-American)
• /ˈspɔːk/ (Received-Pronunciation)

Etymology

Blend of spoon + fork; originally a trademark. Doublet of fpoon.

Meanings

1. (transitive) To move or impale (food etc.) with a spork.
   • Now, obviously, most of this sporking is facetious, done purely for humorous intent (none of the eyeballs being sporked were in news reports), but the phenomenon of the weaponized spork is one that passed lexicographers and language researchers by until we saw the corpus evidence. 2007 July 29, Erin McKean, “Corpus”, in New York Times:
   • She was sporking up her food with the kind of relish Jennifer had rarely seen at three star restaurants. 2002, Olivia Goldsmith, Pen pals:

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