"spork" meaning in English

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Noun

IPA: /spɔːk/ [Received-Pronunciation], /spoəɹk/ [US], /spɔɹk/ [US] Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-spork.wav [Southern-England] Forms: sporks [plural]
Rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)k Etymology: Blend of spoon + fork; originally a trademark. Etymology templates: {{blend|en|spoon|fork}} Blend of spoon + fork Head templates: {{en-noun}} spork (plural sporks)
  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. Categories (topical): Cutlery Synonyms: foon Translations (eating utensil): 叉勺 (chāsháo) (Chinese Mandarin), 叉匙 (chāchí) (Chinese Mandarin), lusikkahaarukka (Finnish), cuillère-fourchette [feminine] (French), cuichette [feminine] (French), Göffel [masculine] (German), 先割れスプーン (sakiware supūn) (Japanese), лажовилушка (lažoviluška) [feminine] (Macedonian), स्पोर्क (sporka) [masculine] (Marathi), łyżkowidelec [masculine] (Polish), ло́жка-ви́лка (lóžka-vílka) [feminine] (Russian), cuchador [masculine] (Spanish), skaffel [common-gender] (Swedish)
    Sense id: en-spork-en-noun-2qIaDl2c Disambiguation of Cutlery: 86 14 Categories (other): English blends, English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with language name categories using raw markup, English entries with topic categories using raw markup, English genericized trademarks Disambiguation of English blends: 80 20 Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 87 13 Disambiguation of English entries with language name categories using raw markup: 84 16 Disambiguation of English entries with topic categories using raw markup: 87 13 Disambiguation of English genericized trademarks: 85 15

Verb

IPA: /spɔːk/ [Received-Pronunciation], /spoəɹk/ [US], /spɔɹk/ [US] Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-spork.wav [Southern-England] Forms: sporks [present, singular, third-person], sporking [participle, present], sporked [participle, past], sporked [past]
Rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)k Etymology: Blend of spoon + fork; originally a trademark. Etymology templates: {{blend|en|spoon|fork}} Blend of spoon + fork Head templates: {{en-verb}} spork (third-person singular simple present sporks, present participle sporking, simple past and past participle sporked)
  1. (transitive) To move or impale (food etc.) with a spork. Tags: transitive
    Sense id: en-spork-en-verb-taO4D1Mk

Inflected forms

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If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.