cuchara
spoon
Reviewed by: David WestfallCofounder
The utensil you scoop with
Encoding Strategies:
mnemonic
visual
couch era
lazy phase of life
Cuchara means spoon and sounds like couch era0, the phase of your life where you laze around on the couch scooping things out of a bowl.
cuchara
spoon
The utensil with a small bowl on the end of a handle, used for eating anything too soft or too runny to spear with a fork.
Necesito una cuchara para la sopaI need a spoon for the soup
Puso las cucharas a la derecha de los platosShe put the spoons to the right of the plates
trowel (Latin America)
The flat hand tool a bricklayer spreads mortar with, named for the same scooping action.
El albañil extendió la mezcla con la cucharaThe bricklayer spread the mortar with the trowel
Se me cayó la cuchara en el cubo de cementoI dropped my trowel in the bucket of cement
bucket, scoop (machinery)
The big curved shovel on the front of an excavator or tractor, which digs and carries material the way a spoon lifts food.
La cuchara de la excavadora levantó toda la tierraThe excavator's bucket lifted all the dirt
El tractor de cuchara despejó el caminoThe scoop tractor cleared the road