(chiefly, UK) Eating or serving utensils such as knives, forks, and spoons.
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Let me just check I’ve got the dining table prepped before I serve dinner… ✅ cutlery ✅ condiments ✅ table runner ✅ placemats ✅ glasses ✅ napkins ✅ enormous cheeky cat 😹😹🦁🦁 #teamfloof #CatsofBluesky
(chiefly, UK) Eating or serving utensils such as knives, forks, and spoons.
a cutlery set
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UK and Irish slang — Cockney, Scouse, Geordie, Yorkshire, Glaswegian, Brummie, Welsh, West Country, plus Irish English. Centuries of regional dialects feeding into modern British and Irish street talk.
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(US) Eating utensils; cutlery, such as forks, knives and spoons.
Military slang for a set of cutlery — the fork, knife, and spoon a soldier uses at meal times. The phrase brings some battlefield swagger to the humble act of eating, which makes sense in a world where mealtime is a brief relief from combat. Used primarily in British military contexts, it reflects the forces' tradition of giving everything — however mundane — a suitably robust nickname.
A box with compartments for storing eating utensils, silverware etc.
I always feel like a failure when a burger's ungainly stacking forces me to reach for cutlery. 😮💨
The business of a cutler.
This cutlery comes from Normandy, France.
“Let me just check I’ve got the dining table prepped before I serve dinner… ✅ cutlery ✅ condiments ✅ table runner ✅ placemats ✅ glasses ✅ napkins ✅ enormous cheeky cat 😹😹🦁🦁 #teamfloof #CatsofBluesky”
“I always feel like a failure when a burger's ungainly stacking forces me to reach for cutlery. 😮💨”
“Right? Are they a disposable thing like foil or wrap, or an implement like the bbq tongs, or weird cutlery like chopsticks or Chinese soup spoons?”
“Trailer for Evil Dead Burn epitomises what I hate most about movie trailers! It starts with a close up shot of cutlery in a dishwasher and I think “I can’t wait to see how that is used” but I didn’t have to wait because they showed it at the end. Too much is shown in the trailer…”
“At the back of the cutlery drawer liner”
(US) Sharp cutting utensils.
Proper maintenance of your cutlery will keep the blades from dulling.