spoondrift
See also: spoon-drift
English
editEtymology
editProbably 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”),[1] but this is doubted by the Scottish National Dictionary: see spindrift.
Pronunciation
edit- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈspuːndɹɪft/
- (General American) IPA(key): /ˈspundɹɪft/
- Hyphenation: spoon‧drift
Noun
editspoondrift (countable and uncountable, plural spoondrifts) (archaic)
Alternative forms
editReferences
edit- ^ “spoondrift, n.”, in OED Online , Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, September 2019.