cutensil
n.β Β«German design firms Authentics and Koziol have made much hay out of plasticβs new pizazz. Koziolβs spaghetti forks with a smiley face, ice-cream scoops with eyes and the “Tim” dish brush with legs are some of more than 300 “cutensils,” as theyβre known, that flew off shelves of American stores last year.Β» ββThe Redesigning Of America” by Frank Gibney Jr., Belinda Luscombe Time Mar. 12, 2000. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
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