spoondrift

See also: spoon-drift

English

Etymology

Probably a variant of Scots spindrift. The Oxford English Dictionary suggests it is derived from spoon + drift (mass of matter driven or forced onward together in a body, etc., especially by wind or water), spoon being a variant of spoom (to sail briskly with the wind astern, with or without sails hoisted),[1] but this is doubted by the Scottish National Dictionary: see spindrift.

Pronunciation

Noun

spoondrift (countable and uncountable, plural spoondrifts) (archaic)

  1. (nautical, archaic) Alternative form of spindrift

Alternative forms

References

  1. spoondrift, n.”, in OED Online Paid subscription required, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, September 2019.

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