spoom
Not valid in Scrabble
It's a recognised English word, but it isn't in the official NASPA Scrabble word list.
- Scrabble points
- 9
- Words With Friends
- 11
- Letters
- 5
Definition of spoom
2 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included
verb
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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.”
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verb
-
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.”
noun
- A sorbet containing fruit juice
Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.
Etymology
Probably a variant of spume (“foam”).
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