The term "runcible spoon" was coined by Edward Lear in the book The Owl and the Pussycat. Modern dictionaries generally define a runcible spoon to be a fork with three prongs, such as a pickle fork, which is curved like a spoon, and also has a cutting edge.

See also spork.

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