wooden spoon

1. 1.

   a booby prize consisting of a spoon made of wood

   Broaderbooby prize

   United Kingdom

2. 2.

   a spoon made of wood

   Broaderspoonwoodenware

Questions about wooden spoon

What does wooden spoon mean?

wooden spoon means "a booby prize consisting of a spoon made of wood". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

Is wooden spoon a common word?

wooden spoon is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.