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# spork

«spork» in Mova's school dictionary: **a plastic or metal eating tool that is a spoon and a fork…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (a spork, sporks)

### meaning for a pupil

A spork is a plastic or metal eating tool that is a spoon and a fork in one: a spoon shape with short prongs at the tip. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/spork/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

In everyday life, sporks come with take-away food, lunch boxes and camping kits. The word is a blend (portmanteau) of "spoon" and "fork", like "brunch" from breakfast and lunch — useful for English lessons on how words are made. In the Toy Story 4 film, the character Forky is made from a spork.

### examples

- I ate my salad with a plastic spork. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/spork/#x1)
- Camping kits often include a spork. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/spork/#x2)
- A spork is a spoon and a fork joined together. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/spork/#x3)
- "Spork" is made by blending the words "spoon" and "fork". [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/spork/#x4)
- The spork wasn't good for soup — the soup ran through the gaps. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/spork/#x5)
- Forky in Toy Story 4 is made from a spork. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/spork/#x6)
- Bring a reusable spork instead of a plastic one. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/spork/#x7)

### note

Countable: sporks. A blend word (spoon + fork), like smog (smoke + fog) and brunch. There is also a "splayd" in Australia: a spoon, fork and knife in one.

### In the corpora

- [A blend is a new word made from parts of two words, like spork, brunch and smog.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/2-nouns-names-of-things-people-places-ideas/18/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «spork» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/spork/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.