The folks at Ozwords showed an image of “a commonly used kitchen utensil” and asked “what do you call this implement?” Spatula is the most common term, followed by egg flip and fish slice. The word spatula has historically been used to refer to an implement with a broad, flat, blunt blade, used for mixing and spreading things, especially in cooking and painting. The Oxford Dictionaries site includes a sense of spatula that encompasses our lifting/turning implement, but labels it US. […] In the UK fish slice is the most common term.