"spoondrift" meaning in All languages combined

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Noun [English]

IPA: /ˈspuːndɹɪft/ [Received-Pronunciation], /ˈspundɹɪft/ [General-American] Forms: spoondrifts [plural]
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”), but this is doubted by the Scottish National Dictionary: see spindrift. Etymology templates: {{der|en|sco|spindrift}} Scots spindrift, {{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”), {{m|en|spindrift}} spindrift Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} spoondrift (countable and uncountable, plural spoondrifts)
  1. (nautical, archaic) Alternative form of spindrift Wikipedia link: Oxford English Dictionary, Scottish National Dictionary Tags: alt-of, alternative, archaic, countable, uncountable Alternative form of: spindrift Categories (topical): Nautical, Snow Categories (place): Seas Synonyms: spoon-drift

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