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

(Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈspuːndɹɪft/
(General American) IPA^(key): /ˈspundɹɪft/
Hyphenation: spoon‧drift

Noun

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

(nautical, archaic) Alternative form of spindrift

Alternative forms

spoon-drift

References

“spoondrift, n.”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, September 2019.

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[1] “spoondrift, n.”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, September 2019.