saltspoonとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

salt +‎ spoon

名詞

saltspoon (複数形 saltspoons)

1. (historical) A small spoon used for serving or measuring salt, equivalent to ⅛ teaspoon.
   • 1798, Charlotte Turner Smith, The Young Philosopher, London: T. Cadell, Jun. & W. Davies, Volume 1, Chapter 3, pp. 55-56,^[1]

     Her reasons […] for disliking paupers of every description were entirely on the surface; “she hated them,” she said, “for they were nasty dirty creatures; the fellows and wenches were all thieves; she once lost a salt spoon by one of them whom Master George thought proper to bring to her door for cold victuals […] ”

   • 1870, Charles Dickens, The Mystery of Edwin Drood, Chapter 22,^[2]

     His gleaming little service of plate was so arranged upon his sideboard as that a slack salt-spoon would have instantly betrayed itself […]

   • 1872, Charles Stuart Calverley, “The Palace” in Fly Leaves, Cambridge: Deighton, Bell, p. 15,^[3]

     Dashed the bold fork through pies of pork;

     O’er hard-boiled eggs the saltspoon shook;

   • 1909, Channing Arnold and Frederick J. Tabor Frost, The American Egypt: A Record of Travel in Yucatan, London: Hutchinson, Chapter 20, p. 352,^[4]

     There is no such thing as a saltspoon in Yucatan. You are expected to shake the salt out or take it out with your fingers.