spoondrift
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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”), 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)
Alternative forms
References
- ^ “spoondrift, n.”, in OED Online
, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, September 2019.
