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spooms

spooms is the third-person singular simple present indicative of spoom.

spooms is the plural of spoom.

Meaning of spoom

Verb

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

  1. 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.

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Questions about spooms

What is spooms the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Spooms is the third-person singular simple present indicative of spoom.

Words near spooms in the dictionary

  1. spoolwood
  2. spoolwork
  3. spoom
  4. spoomed
  5. spooming
  6. spooms
  7. spoon
  8. spoon bowl
  9. spoon bowls
  10. spoon bread
  11. spoon breads

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Adapted from Wiktionary: spooms (page history and authors); spoom (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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