Usually means: Person who inadvertently swaps sounds.
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General (7 matching dictionaries)
  1. spooner: Merriam-Webster
  2. spooner: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. Spooner, spooner: Wordnik
  4. Spooner, spooner: Wiktionary
  5. Spooner (band), Spooner (surname), Spooner: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  6. Spooner: Rhymezone
  7. Spooner: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Spooner: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Spooner: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. SPOONER, SPOONER, SPOONER: Terminology and Descriptions of Geneaological Words
  2. Spooner: Idioms

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. spooner: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. spooner, the spooner: Urban Dictionary

Definitions from Wiktionary (Spooner)

noun:  One who spoons; one who engages in spooning.
noun:  (dated) A person who engages in kissing and petting.
noun:  A person who lies nestled against their partner in bed, back-to-front on their sides
verb:  To utter a spoonerism.
noun:  (countable) A surname.
noun:  A placename
noun:  A city in Wisconsin, United States.
noun:  A town in Washburn County, Wisconsin, United States.

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