spoondrift

Meanings

Noun

spray blown up from the surface of the sea
Alternative form of spindrift.

Origin / 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.

Synonyms

spindrift

Scrabble Score: 16

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Words With Friends Score: 0

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