It’s National Dictionary Day. Instead of commanding you all to go forth and look sh*t up, I’m giving you the definition of the last word (term, actually) I looked up.

I do own the second edition of the actual, twenty-volume Oxford English Dictionary (rad dictionary nerds like me call it the OED). I won’t waste my time and yours typing up the long OED definition and linguistic history; we’ll be jumping straight to the weenie, one-volume edition of the Oxford English Dictionary.

Runcible spoon [made famous by The Owl and the Pussycat]:

Noun

A fork curved like a spoon, with three broad prongs, one of which has a sharpened outer edge for cutting.

So, basically what we’re talking about is a fancy spork.

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