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spork noun 1. An eating utensil resembling a spoon with short fork tines once limited to backpacking, now found in fast-food emporia and airliners; 2. Any device of illusory utility, which appears, at first glance, to be practical and ingenious, but is found to be tedious, frustrating or actually useless in practice. Eating pasta with a spork is much like eating peas with a knife. And eating soup with a spork is not much better than using…well…a fork. 3) The current and less imaginative term for the runcible spoon, the elegant term coined by Edward Lear in “The Owl and the Pussycat.” We live in barbarous times
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