spoondrift

noun

spoon·​drift

ˈspünˌdrift

plural -s

: spray blown from waves during a gale at sea : spindrift

Word History

Etymology

alteration (influenced by spoon entry 4) of earlier spenedrift, from Scots speendrift

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