"spindrift" meaning in All languages combined

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Noun [English]

IPA: /ˈspɪndɹɪft/ [Received-Pronunciation, Scotland], /ˈspɪnˌdɹɪft/ [General-American] Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-spindrift.wav [Southern-England] Forms: spindrifts [plural]
Etymology: Borrowed from Scots spindrift; further etymology uncertain. The Oxford English Dictionary suggests it is a variant of spoondrift (archaic), apparently due to the pronunciation of this word in southwestern Scotland, which is derived from spoon + drift (“mass of matter driven or forced onward together in a body, etc., especially by wind or water”); spoon is a variant of spoom (“to sail briskly with the wind astern, with or without sails hoisted”). However, this is doubted by the Scottish National Dictionary because spoondrift is attested later than spindrift and it seems unlikely that the Scots spelling would have superseded the English one, and because the early use of the Scots word in the form spenedrift by James Melville (1556–1614) is unlikely to have derived from spoondrift. The word was popularized in English from the late 19th century by its use in the novels of the Scottish-born author William Black (1841–1898): see, for example, the 1878 quotation. Etymology templates: {{bor|en|sco|spindrift}} Scots spindrift, {{m|en|spoondrift}} spoondrift, {{qualifier|archaic}} (archaic), {{compound|en|spoon|drift|nocat=1|t2=mass of matter driven or forced onward together in a body, etc., especially by wind or water}} spoon + drift (“mass of matter driven or forced onward together in a body, etc., especially by wind or water”), {{m|en||spoon}} spoon, {{m|en|spoom|t=to sail briskly with the wind astern, with or without sails hoisted}} spoom (“to sail briskly with the wind astern, with or without sails hoisted”) Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} spindrift (countable and uncountable, plural spindrifts)
  1. (nautical) Sea spray (clouds of water droplets) blown from the tops of waves by the wind and whipped along the surface of the sea. Tags: countable, uncountable Categories (topical): Nautical, Clouds, Snow Categories (place): Seas Translations (sea spray blown from the tops of waves by the wind and whipped along the surface of the sea): водни пръски (vodni prǎski) [feminine, plural] (Bulgarian), 浪花 (alt: 兒) (Chinese Mandarin), 浪花 (alt: 儿) (Chinese Mandarin), pärske (Finnish), embrun [masculine] (French), Gischt [feminine] (German), cathadh-mara [masculine] (Scottish Gaelic), bụi nước (Vietnamese), llwch y môr [masculine] (Welsh)
    Sense id: en-spindrift-en-noun-i~gRtCBo Disambiguation of Clouds: 45 55 Disambiguation of Snow: 53 47 Disambiguation of Seas: 89 11 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with topic categories using raw markup, English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys, Pages with raw sortkeys Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 76 24 Disambiguation of English entries with topic categories using raw markup: 72 28 Disambiguation of English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys: 74 26 Disambiguation of Pages with raw sortkeys: 73 27 Topics: nautical, transport Disambiguation of 'sea spray blown from the tops of waves by the wind and whipped along the surface of the sea': 82 18
  2. (by extension) Clouds of sand, snow, etc., whipped along the ground by the wind. Tags: broadly, countable, uncountable Categories (topical): Clouds, Snow
    Sense id: en-spindrift-en-noun-3hVIBGHk Disambiguation of Clouds: 45 55 Disambiguation of Snow: 53 47
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: speendrift [Northeastern, Scotland], spoondrift

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      "word": "Gischt"
    },
    {
      "code": "gd",
      "lang": "Scottish Gaelic",
      "sense": "sea spray blown from the tops of waves by the wind and whipped along the surface of the sea",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "cathadh-mara"
    },
    {
      "code": "vi",
      "lang": "Vietnamese",
      "sense": "sea spray blown from the tops of waves by the wind and whipped along the surface of the sea",
      "word": "bụi nước"
    },
    {
      "code": "cy",
      "lang": "Welsh",
      "sense": "sea spray blown from the tops of waves by the wind and whipped along the surface of the sea",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "llwch y môr"
    }
  ],
  "wikipedia": [
    "Oxford English Dictionary",
    "Scottish National Dictionary"
  ],
  "word": "spindrift"
}

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