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Spoon-meat

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Spoon´-meat`    (~mēt`)
n.1.Food that is, or must be, taken with a spoon; liquid food.


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But here the constable interposed with the constitutional principle 'words be blowed;' observing that words were but spoon-meat for babes and sucklings, and that oaths were the food for strong men.
The Old Curiosity Shop by Dickens, Charles View in context
I sha'n't be put off wi' spoon-meat afore I've lost my teeth.
The Mill on the Floss by Eliot, George View in context
Why, I know upo' good authority as it's a big Frenchman as reaches five foot high, an' they live upo' spoon-meat mostly.
Adam Bede by Eliot, George View in context
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