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spoon

verb as in neck

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"We are starting life again, collecting spoon by spoon, plate by plate. Famine came, and we ground pigeon-feed to eat, and lived on wild greens," she told us.

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He then used that stripped, bent twig to spoon the termites into his mouth.

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She was assisted by 10 other chefs in red uniforms wielding long wooden spoons to stir the food.

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According to law enforcement sources, investigators learned one of the grenades was missing when they could only find one of the “spoons” — suggesting just one grenade had exploded at the scene.

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“Greek whole fat yogurt — can’t get enough of it. She’s licking it right off the spoon.”

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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