A large, deep spoon with a long handle, mainly used to serve soup, stew, sauce, or other liquids, and regionally also a similar scoop used for grain or sugar-making.
Examples
Sirvió la sopa con un cucharón de metal.
She served the soup with a metal ladle.
Deja el cucharón dentro de la olla.
Leave the ladle in the pot.
Removió el guiso con un cucharón de madera.
He stirred the stew with a wooden ladle.
En Puerto Rico usaron un cucharón para sacar el arroz del saco.
In Puerto Rico they used a scoop to take rice from the sack.
El trabajador del trapiche vertió la miel con un cucharón de hierro.
The sugar-mill worker poured the syrup with an iron ladle.
Similar words
cazo
cacillo
cucharón de servir
servidor
pala
concha
Amount held by a ladle
noun
food
neutral
The amount of food or liquid that fills one ladle.
Examples
Añade un cucharón de caldo al arroz.
Add a ladleful of stock to the rice.
Me sirvió dos cucharones de lentejas.
She served me two ladlefuls of lentils.
Con un cucharón basta para esta salsa.
One ladleful is enough for this sauce.
Cada plato lleva un cucharón de sopa.
Each bowl gets one ladleful of soup.
Guardó el último cucharón de guiso para su hija.
He saved the last ladleful of stew for his daughter.
Similar words
cucharonada
porción
ración
medida
Concave pan on a balance
noun
measurement
technical
The concave pan of a balance where the object being weighed is placed, especially in Mexican usage.
Examples
Puso la moneda en el cucharón de la balanza.
She placed the coin in the scale pan.
El cucharón debe estar limpio antes de pesar la muestra.
The weighing pan must be clean before the sample is weighed.
La fruta desbordó el cucharón de la balanza antigua.
The fruit overflowed the old balance's pan.
Ajustaron el cucharón para que quedara nivelado.
They adjusted the scale pan so that it was level.
El polvo quedó adherido al cucharón de latón.
The powder stuck to the brass weighing pan.
Similar words
platillo
plato
bandeja
receptáculo
Spoon-billed wading bird
noun
zoology
neutral
In Mexico and Guatemala, a local name for certain wetland birds with broad, spoon-shaped bills, including the roseate spoonbill and the boat-billed heron.
Examples
Un cucharón rosado buscaba alimento en la laguna.
A roseate spoonbill was looking for food in the lagoon.
Los cucharones anidan cerca de los humedales costeros.
The spoonbills nest near coastal wetlands.
El guía mexicano señaló un cucharón entre los mangles.
The Mexican guide pointed out a spoonbill among the mangroves.
En Tabasco llaman cucharón a un ave nocturna de pico ancho.
In Tabasco, a broad-billed nocturnal bird is called a boat-billed heron.
El pico del cucharón explica su nombre popular.
The spoonbill's bill explains its popular name.
Similar words
espátula rosada
garza cucharón
chocolatera
quechol
pichilingo
papasque
Playful word for the heart
noun
anatomy
informal
In Peru, Bolivia, Chile, Uruguay, and more limited parts of Central and northern South America, a popular or playful name for a person's heart.
Examples
La noticia le aceleró el cucharón.
The news made his heart race.
Ese reencuentro me llenó el cucharón de alegría.
That reunion filled my heart with joy.
En la canción uruguaya, cucharón rima con corazón.
In the Uruguayan song, cucharón rhymes with heart.
Cuida el cucharón, que el estrés no perdona.
Look after your ticker, because stress is unforgiving.
Se llevó la mano al cucharón al oír el resultado.
She put her hand to her heart when she heard the result.