spooner

A spooner is someone who spoons—either in the cuddling sense, lying close behind another person with bodies curved together, or in the act of eating with a spoon.

The term also applies to someone who commits spoonerisms, the verbal slips where initial sounds of words get swapped: "a blushing crow" for "a crushing blow." He's a chronic spooner who can never get his words straight. (Capitalized Spooner is a surname, notably of the Reverend William Archibald Spooner, whose speech errors inspired the term spoonerism.)