spoom
English
editAlternative forms
editEtymology
editProbably a variant of spume (“foam”).
Verb
editspoom (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.
- 17th century: Samuel Pepys
Noun
editspoom (plural spooms)
- A sorbet containing fruit juice