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windjammed

windjammed is the simple past and past participle of windjam.

Meaning of windjam

Verb

windjam (third-person singular simple present windjams, present participle windjamming, simple past and past participle windjammed)

  1. (archaic) To sail.
    • I tried to read George Moore last night, and was dreadfully bored. He may be a realist, but I solemnly aver he does not know reality on that tight, little, sheltered-life archipelago of his. If he could wind-jam around the Horn just one voyage he would be twice the writer.1914, Jack London, The Mutiny of the Elsinore, Chapter XLIV
  2. (US, slang) To speak in a long-winded manner; to chatter, bloviate.
    • He set a hand on the small of her back, steered her to the rear of the salon. "This'll take five minutes." You got time to windjam with Alice, you got time for me.2005, Forbes, Mary J, Everything She's Ever Wanted, New York, N.Y.: Silhouette Books, →ISBN, page 209

Questions about windjammed

What is windjammed the simple past and past participle of?
Windjammed is the simple past and past participle of windjam.

Words near windjammed in the dictionary

  1. windings-up
  2. Windisch
  3. Windish
  4. Windishes
  5. windjam
  6. windjammed
  7. windjammer
  8. windjammers
  9. windjamming
  10. windjams
  11. windkanter

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