Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Food that is or has to be taken with a spoon; liquid food; figuratively, food for babes or weaklings.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Food that is, or must be, taken with a spoon; liquid food.
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- noun dated
food to be taken with aspoon ;liquid food
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Examples
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He entertains no sympathy with the cannibal, who judges the flavour of his enemy improved by temporary commitment to a subterranean larder; yet, to be sure, he keeps his grouse and his venison till it approaches the condition of spoon-meat.
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But having a tolerable night on Thursday, I was a good deal better on Friday, and on Saturday got up, and ate a little spoon-meat, and my feverishness seemed to be gone; and I was so mended by evening, that I begged her indulgence in my closet, to be left to myself; which she consented to, it being double-barred the day before, and
Pamela 2006
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"Ephraim was feeding me with spoon-meat," said Aunt Lyddy, pointing to the basket, which looked like a basket of anthracite coal.
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"It looks like spoon-meat," said Susan, and then she laughed too.
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Indeed there exist letters of his to his daughter, dated so far back as 1750, stating his incapacity to chew solid food, and deploring the necessity of living upon spoon-meat, on account of the loss of his teeth.
The Mirror of Taste, and Dramatic Censor, Vol. I, No. 4, April 1810
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The fact is that the robust and vigorous appetite of the English has been worn down by the intemperate use of German dramas, and is so vitiated and enfeebled that it can swallow nothing but hot spiced trash, or water gruel spoon-meat.
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I shant be put off wi spoon-meat afore Ive lost my teeth.
III. Mr. Riley Gives His Advice Concerning a School for Tom. Book I—Boy and Girl 1917
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S. Master, if you do, expect spoon-meat, so bespeak a long spoon.
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If any one think this too hard and sparing a diet for a child, let them know, that a child will never starve nor dwindle for want of nourishment, who, besides flesh at dinner, and spoon-meat, or some such other thing, at supper, may have good bread and beer as often as he has a stomach.
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How I longed to meet once more people who feed on spoon-meat!
The World's Greatest Books — Volume 19 — Travel and Adventure Various 1909
qms commented on the word spoon-meat
The bird as a whole is a boon treat
But remnants are what we will soon eat
In fragments instead -
In fritters, on bread,
And finally we'll sip it as spoon-meat.
November 22, 2016
yarb commented on the word spoon-meat
"...the marquis being asked by the painter which of the silly-kickabys he chose, was, in consequence of his desire, accommodated with a portion of the soup-maigre; and the count, in lieu of spoon-meat, of which he said he was no great admirer, supplied himself with a pigeon..."
— Smollett, Peregrine Pickle
March 1, 2022