wooden spoonist
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Englisch
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From wooden spoon + -ist.
Pronunciation
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Nomen
[edit]wooden spoonist (plural wooden spoonists)
- (idiomatic) Synonym of wooden spooner: a last-place finisher.
- 1911, Aida Rodman De Milt, Ways and Days Out of London:
- At the tail of the long list was Mr. R. P, of Fitzwilliam Hall, the " wooden spoonist."
- 1956, Arthur Harold Booth, British hustings, 1924-1950:
- Thus it was that in the electoral League-table of the twentieth century so far the Conservatives had to be debited with the wooden spoonist as well as credited with the champion.
- 2012, Simon Rae, W. G. Grace: A Life, Faber & Faber, →ISBN:
- 'From the position of “wooden spoonist” [Gloucestershire] rose to the honourable position of fourth in the list, and became once again a team whose drawing capacity as regards “gate” was unsurpassed by any other County.'