Meanings
verbspoom (third-person singular simple present spooms, present participle spooming, simple past and past participle spoomed)
present singular third person spooms · participle present spooming · participle past spoomed · past spoomed · alternative spoon
- nauticalTo 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.
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17th century: John Dryden When virtue spooms before a prosperous gale, / My heaving wishes help to fill the sail.
Origin
Probably a variant of spume (“foam”).
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WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “spoom,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/spoom.
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