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English
Etymology
From wooden spoon + -ist.
Pronunciation
Noun
wooden spoonist (plural wooden spoonists)
- (idiomatic) Synonym of wooden spooner: a last-place finisher.
1911, Aida Rodman De Milt, Ways and Days Out of London:At the tail of the long list was Mr. R. P, of Fitzwilliam Hall, the " wooden spoonist."
1956, Arthur Harold Booth, British hustings, 1924-1950:Thus it was that in the electoral League-table of the twentieth century so far the Conservatives had to be debited with the wooden spoonist as well as credited with the champion.
2012, Simon Rae, W. G. Grace: A Life, Faber & Faber, →ISBN:'From the position of “wooden spoonist” [Gloucestershire] rose to the honourable position of fourth in the list, and became once again a team whose drawing capacity as regards “gate” was unsurpassed by any other County.'