windjam
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English
Alternative forms
Etymology
From wind + jam.[1] Possibly a back-formation from windjammer.
Verb
windjam (third-person singular simple present windjams, present participle windjamming, simple past and past participle windjammed)
- (now rare) To sail.
- 1934 July, A.C. Strong, “A Line Squall off Cape Hatteras”, in Yachting, volume LVI, page 90, column 2:
- By that time Virginia Beach was abeam and Cape Henry Lighthouse appeared dimly over the port bow. The breeze was no fresher, so we shook out the reefs in the mainsail, and windjammed up the coast, N½W with started sheets. Good old crock!
- 2016, Eugene Lambert, The Sign of One, London: Electric Monkey, →ISBN, page 112:
- I have to close my eyes. Either that or puke my guts into my lap. ¶ 'You can look now,' sneers Sky, a long time later. ¶ It's okay for her, she's used to windjamming.
- (US, slang) To speak in a long-winded manner; to chatter, bloviate.
References
- ^ “windjam, v.”, in OED Online
, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.
