scoon
English
editAlternative forms
editEtymology
editPossibly related with shunt (“to cause to move (suddenly)”). Compare Danish skynde (“to hurry”).
Verb
editscoon (third-person singular simple present scoons, present participle scooning, simple past and past participle scooned)
- (transitive, intransitive) To skim along (a surface) like a vessel on the water.
Derived terms
edit- schooner (possibly)
References
edit- Oxford English Dictionary, 1884–1928, and First Supplement, 1933.