spoom

English

Alternative forms

• spoon

Etymology

Probably a variant of spume (“foam”).

Verb

spoom (third-person singular simple present spooms, present participle spooming, simple past and past participle spoomed)

1. (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.

Noun

spoom (plural spooms)

1. A sorbet containing fruit juice