wooden-spoonern. a competitor who is awarded the ‘wooden spoon’; a loser.
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1954 J. H. FingletonAshes crown Year 275 Somerset were wooden-spooners last summer and will be so again.
1973 Nation Rev. (Melbourne) 31 Aug. 1442/3 4BH slips to fourth place in the five station market, with perennial wooden spooners, 4BK, only 2000 listeners behind.