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runcible spoon definition

run·cible spoon (run′sə bəl)

a table utensil of indefinite form referred to by Edward Lear in his humorous poem “The Owl and the Pussycat” (1871): term later applied to any of various utensils with broad tines and a spoonlike shape

Etymology: coined by Edward Lear < ? obs. rounceval, huge (< ?) + -ible

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2009 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
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