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Definition of Spoonfeed
1. Verb. Feed with a spoon.
2. Verb. Teach without challenging the students. "The parents spoonfeed a French poem to the children"; "This professor spoonfeeds his students"
Definition of Spoonfeed
1. Verb. (transitive) Feed using a spoon. ¹
2. Verb. (transitive figuratively) Teach or assist whilst requiring little or no effort on the part of the person being taught or assisted. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Spoonfeed
Literary usage of Spoonfeed
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Biographical Studies in Scottish Church History by Bp Anthony Mitchell (1914)
""If you will spoonfeed me," he wrote, "I will spoonfeed their Lordships, and
perhaps some few grains may get down." Nothing loth Dowden set to work and ..."
2. Biographical Studies in Scottish Church History by Anthony Mitchell (1914)
""If you will spoonfeed me," he wrote, "I will spoonfeed their Lordships, and
perhaps some few grains may get down." Nothing loth Dowden set to work and ..."
3. Fraser's Magazine for Town and Country (1878)
"Shall we spoonfeed our babes on science-pap, Till teeth find tougher work ?
train them to scan The mechanism of all phenomena. To measure and set it down in ..."
4. The Sunday at Home by Religious Tract Society, Religious Tract Society (Great Britain) (1891)
"I have known a man in this predicament, who at last handed on the idea to another,
begging him, as it were, to dress the bantling and spoonfeed it, ..."
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