Spatula

Quick meaning: Spatula is a noun meaning (cooking) A kitchen utensil consisting of a flat surface attached to a long handle, used for turning, lifting, or stirring food.

Meaning

(cooking) A kitchen utensil consisting of a flat surface attached to a long handle, used for turning, lifting, or stirring food.

More Meanings

1. (Canada, US) A kitchen utensil consisting of a flexible surface attached to a long handle, used for scraping the sides of bowls.
2. (chemistry) A thin hand tool, often made of nickel, for handling chemicals or other materials, when weighing, etc.
3. (UK) A tongue depressor.
4. A croupier's tool for turning up cards in a casino.
5. (entomology) A sclerotized, T-shaped plate in the prothorax of larvae of flies belonging to family Cecidomyiidae, the gall midges.
6. (transitive) To lift with or as if with a spatula.
7. (dated) A palette knife.

Example Sentences

I haven't spatulaed anyone in ages.

A book on Pastels referes [sic] to a rough Modeling paste to be spatulaed over cotton duck.

The croupier delicately faced her other two cards with the tip of his spatula. A four! She had lost!

So if you get road-pizzaed, should you have to pay in order to get yourself spatulaed off of the street?

Word Forms

• spatulas
• spatulae
• spatulaing
• spatulaed

Synonyms for spatula

Depending on context, synonyms include turner, flipper, scraper.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include spoon, shovel, knife, stirrer, policeman, spatcheler.

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