big spoon

English

A drawing of stick figures spooning. The person on the left is the big spoon.

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Noun

big spoon (plural big spoons)

1. (slang) The person whose front is touching the other person's back when spooning.
   • 2011 February 24, Charlotte Knight, “You snooze, you lose”, in The Daily Titan, volume 89, number 13, California State University, Fullerton, page 4:

     So we would attempt to nap. But as he had a twin bed, space was limited, so I would insist he be the big spoon and I be the little spoon.

   • 2012, Kamyar Jarazadeh, "Cuddle Sutra", Caliber Magazine, Issue 5, Spring 2012, page 59:

     It's a scene played out in bedrooms all over America: after minutes or hours of cuddling, the big spoon rolls off the little spoon and turns his or her back.

   • 2013, "The Bardian's Guide To Sharing A Bed", Bard Free Press (Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York), Volume 14, Issue 5, February 2013, page 19:

     Keep in mind, though, boner pokes from the big spoon might get in the way of sleep. If the big spoon has a penis, that is.

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:big spoon.

Coordinate terms

• little spoon