cucharear

To spoon out or ladle something, and colloquially, to meddle or butt into other people's business (the same meter cuchara imagery as cuchar). It's casual regional Spanish rather than a standard dictionary entry.

• Cucharea la salsa sobre el arroz antes de servir. — Spoon the sauce over the rice before serving.
• No le gusta que cucharee en sus asuntos. — He doesn't like people meddling in his affairs.
• El cocinero cucharea el caldo en cada plato. — The cook ladles the broth into each bowl.

Outside the literal "ladle food" sense, this is informal slang for meddling — don't use it in a formal register, where entrometerse would be the standard choice.

Often confused with entrometerse.