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English
Etymology
Probably a variant of spume (“foam”).
Verb
spoom (third-person singular simple present spooms, present participle spooming, simple past and past participle spoomed)
- (nautical) To sail briskly with the wind astern, with or without sails hoisted.
- 17th century: Samuel Pepys
- We might have spooned before the wind as well as they.
- 17th century: John Dryden
- When virtue spooms before a prosperous gale, / My heaving wishes help to fill the sail.
Noun
spoom (plural spooms)
- A sorbet containing fruit juice