spatula
/ˈspætjʊlə/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.86 in modern English
9
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
3
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A kitchen utensil consisting of a flat surface attached to a long handle, used for turning, lifting, or stirring food.
noun
A kitchen utensil consisting of a flexible surface attached to a long handle, used for scraping the sides of bowls.
Canadian usage; American usage
noun
A thin hand tool, often made of nickel, for handling chemicals or other materials, when weighing, etc.
noun
A croupier's tool for turning up cards in a casino.
noun
A sclerotized, T-shaped plate in the prothorax of larvae of flies belonging to family Cecidomyiidae, the gall midges.
Example Sentences
- "The croupier delicately faced her other two cards with the tip of his spatula. A four! She had lost!"
- "The third instars are similar to other members of the genus except for a three-pronged spatula (typically two-pronged) and five lateral papillae (typically four) and with a nonbristled first instar."
- "A book on Pastels referes [sic] to a rough Modeling paste to be spatulaed over cotton duck."
- "So if you get road-pizzaed, should you have to pay in order to get yourself spatulaed off of the street?"
- "Eddie spatulaed the patty onto a bun and extracted tomatoes, lettuce, and sliced pickles from a Tupperware."
- "Or if you're a Ranma Character. I mean, they've been kicked/punched/thrown/hammered/spatulaed into the stratosphere enough times, you gotta figure they've developed a prretty high threshold of pain/injury."
Etymology
Origin
- Source language: Latin