Technical Term for Spoon-collecting

[Dusky]

As a coin-collector is a numismatist and a bell-ringer is a campanologist, what is a spoon-collector?

[steve @ home]

sad

(sorry, just had to get in first with that!)

[Xollob]

"Cocleare" is Latin for "spoon", so I assume the term would be "coclearist" or "cochlearist".

[burnhal]

One site which gives lists of terms for various collectors lists a spoon collectoe as a Spatulologist

[Quizmonster]

Most names for collectors are based on the appropriate Greek root-word together with 'phile', the Greek for 'lover of'. Thus an 'arctophile' is a teddy-bear lover/collector. On that basis, a spoon-collector would be a 'koutalophile'.
I've no doubt that 'spatulologist' is the term they do use but that's a bit of a cop-out, coming as it does from the Greek for 'broad blade'. Sounds to me as if that would be a better word for a collector of scimitars or claymores!

[lankeela]

A stirrer.

[lankeela]

And if he's not very good at it, he's a 'sh*t' stirrer

[Dusky]

Thank you all; there's much useful ammunition here.

After the inevitably ribald comments that eddied around the subject of campanology in the pub I'm particularly pleased with cochlearist. Fortunately, none of us is a campanologist but there is, apparently, a cochlearist - or koutalophile - or spatulologist (remember Steve Wright's show in the 80s?) and I'm going to enjoy passing on your collective wisdom.

Thanks again.