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9 letters · 15 points in Scrabble
Meaning
noun spray blown up from the surface of the sea
originBorrowed from Scots spindrift; further etymology uncertain. The Oxford English Dictionary suggests it is a variant of spoondrift (archaic), apparently due to the pronunciation of this word in southwestern Scotland, which is derived from spoon + drift (“mass of matter driven or forced onward together in a body, etc., especially by wind or water”); spoon is a variant of spoom (“to sail briskly with…
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 3.0
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- drifts 10
- trifid 10
- drift 9
- finds 9
- spif 9
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- prints 8
- spirit 8
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- drips 8
- dript 8