dessert spoon

noun

variants or less commonly dessertspoon

di-ˈzərt-ˌspün 

plural dessert spoons also dessertspoons

1

: a spoon intermediate in size between a teaspoon and a tablespoon for use in eating dessert

… the teaspoon was sold with the table settings instead of the larger dessert spoon, which would have been more useful …

—Judith Martin et al.

2

: dessertspoonful

Take two glasses and spoon two to three dessertspoons of granola into the bottom of each one.

—Irish Independent

Word History

First Known Use

1754, in the meaning defined at sense 1