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Spoondrift

//ˈspuːndɹɪft// noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    Alternative form of spindrift. alt-of, alternative, archaic, countable, uncountable
  2. 2
    spray blown up from the surface of the sea wordnet

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.

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