little spoon

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English

A drawing of stick figures spooning. The person on the right is the little spoon.

Pronunciation

Noun

little spoon (plural little spoons)

  1. (slang) The person whose back is touching the other person's front when spooning.
    • 2011 February 24, Charlotte Knight, “You snooze, you lose”, in The Daily Titan, volume 89, number 13, California State University, Fullerton, page 4:
      So we would attempt to nap. But as he had a twin bed, space was limited, so I would insist he be the big spoon and I be the little spoon.
    • 2012 July 12, “She's the little spoon: Snuggle up for $60”, in Metro, New York, page 2:
      "There are different kinds of cuddling positions, but I typically always start out spooning. And I am pretty small, so usually I'm the little spoon," Samuel said.
    • 2012, Anna L. Beedes, "Finding fairies in moustaches", Capilano Courier (Capilano University), Volume 46, Number 11, 26 November 2012, page 8:
      The morning after, while demanding to be the little spoon he asked, “So you're not going to fall in love with me, are you?”
    • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:little spoon.

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