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Spindrift

#66108 04/26/02 10:56 PM

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Piedmont Region of Virginia, U...

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Well, this thread is ready to go on out to sea, and I've found a lovely ocean word I don't believe we have here:

spendrift

It's defined in Random House Word Menu:

spray swept by wind from waves during storm at sea...

and then an equally lovely term is given as a synonym:

spoondrift

...I can go to sleep on those two words, stormy though they may be. What do you call a word that sounds as though its one thing (e.g., spendrift and spoondrift sound laidback and easy), but is actually quite something else? Spoondrift just doesn't sound stormy at all to my ear.

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Coriolis Effect Wordwind 04/18/02 09:05 AM

Re: Coriolis Effect Bean 04/18/02 12:57 PM

Re: Coriolis Effect RhubarbCommando 04/18/02 02:02 PM

Re: Coriolis Effect Faldage 04/18/02 02:07 PM

Post deleted by Jackie AphonicRants 04/18/02 07:12 PM

Re: Coriolis Effect Faldage 04/18/02 07:31 PM

Re: Coriolis Effect Capital Kiwi 04/18/02 08:09 PM

Re: Coriolis Effect Wordwind 04/18/02 08:23 PM

Re: Coriolis Effect Bean 04/19/02 11:52 AM

Re: Bean's Ocean List Wordwind 04/19/02 12:08 PM

Re: Bean's Ocean List Faldage 04/19/02 12:17 PM

Re: Bean's Ocean List of troy 04/19/02 01:07 PM

Re: Bean's Ocean List Wordwind 04/19/02 01:14 PM

Re: Bean's Ocean List Faldage 04/19/02 01:35 PM

Re: Bean's Ocean List Keiva 04/19/02 01:37 PM

Re: Bean's Ocean List maverick 04/19/02 01:41 PM

Re: Bean's Ocean List Keiva 04/19/02 01:57 PM

Re: Bean's Ocean List Wordwind 04/19/02 02:02 PM

Re: Bean's Ocean List Wordwind 04/19/02 09:49 PM

Re: All ashore that's coming ashore Keiva 04/19/02 11:17 PM

the changeable berm Keiva 04/19/02 11:24 PM

Re: Bean's Ocean List WhitmanO'Neill 04/20/02 12:13 AM

Re: Bean's Ocean List WhitmanO'Neill 04/20/02 12:31 AM

Re: Bean's Ocean List/berms WhitmanO'Neill 04/20/02 12:46 AM

Re: Bean's Ocean List/berms maverick 04/20/02 12:52 AM

Re: Bean's Ocean List/berms WhitmanO'Neill 04/20/02 12:58 AM

Re: Bean's Ocean List/berms maverick 04/20/02 01:34 AM

Re: Bean's Ocean List/berms Wordwind 04/20/02 01:58 AM

Re: Bean's Ocean List/berms WhitmanO'Neill 04/20/02 11:19 AM

Re: Bean's Ocean List/berms Wordwind 04/20/02 11:26 AM

Re: Bean's Ocean List/berms WhitmanO'Neill 04/20/02 02:13 AM

Re: Bean's Ocean List milum 04/20/02 01:23 AM

Re: Bean's Ocean List of troy 04/19/02 02:07 PM

Re: Bean's Ocean List maverick 04/19/02 02:25 PM

Not for sure Jackie 04/19/02 07:46 PM

Re: Not for sure Faldage 04/19/02 08:00 PM

Not sure either. musick 04/19/02 09:27 PM

Re: Not sure either. of troy 04/19/02 10:34 PM

What's the name of this? consuelo 04/19/02 10:40 PM

Re: Bubbly Bath(ing) Water stales 04/21/02 01:22 PM

Re: Bubbly Bath(ing) Water consuelo 04/21/02 03:51 PM

Re: seiche Keiva 04/19/02 11:33 PM

Re: Not sure either. Faldage 04/20/02 01:25 PM

Re: Not sure either. of troy 04/20/02 01:46 PM

Re: Not sure either. wow 04/20/02 04:09 PM

Re: Not sure either. rkay 04/22/02 08:39 AM

Re: Not sure either. Faldage 04/22/02 01:27 PM

Re: Not sure either. AnnaStrophic 04/22/02 02:10 PM

Re: Apples and Noranges Faldage 04/22/02 02:29 PM

Re: Not sure either. of troy 04/22/02 02:40 PM

Re: Not sure either. Jazzoctopus 04/22/02 05:06 PM

Sinusoidal tides Bean 04/23/02 11:06 AM

Re: Sinusoidal tides Faldage 04/23/02 01:01 PM

Re: Sinusoidal tides Bean 04/23/02 01:38 PM

Re: Sinusoidal tides AnnaStrophic 04/25/02 03:23 PM

Re: Sinusoidal tides rkay 04/25/02 03:42 PM

Re: Sinusoidal tides Faldage 04/25/02 03:49 PM

Re: Sinusoidal tides rkay 04/25/02 03:57 PM

Re: Sinusoidal tides Faldage 04/25/02 04:10 PM

Re: Sinusoidal tides dxb 04/25/02 04:40 PM

Re: Sinusoidal tides Faldage 04/25/02 04:53 PM

Re: Sinusoidal tides dxb 04/25/02 05:09 PM

Re: Sinusoidal tides Faldage 04/25/02 05:29 PM

Re: Sinusoidal tides Keiva 04/25/02 05:33 PM

Re: Sinusoidal tides dxb 04/29/02 03:25 PM

Re: Sinusoidal tides Bean 04/29/02 04:32 PM

Re: Sinusoidal tides Bean 04/29/02 05:08 PM

Re: Sinusoidal tides consuelo 04/29/02 09:34 PM

Re: Sinusoidal tides Bingley 04/30/02 04:48 AM

Re: Sinusoidal tides dxb 04/30/02 10:46 AM

Re: Sinusoidal tides wwh 04/30/02 02:43 PM

Re: Sinusoidal tides Bean 05/01/02 10:52 AM

Re: Sinusoidal tides dxb 05/01/02 04:10 PM

Re: Sinusoidal tides Bean 04/26/02 04:38 PM

Re: Sinusoidal tides of troy 04/26/02 07:27 PM

Spindrift Wordwind 04/26/02 10:56 PM

Re: Not sure either. WhitmanO'Neill 04/22/02 05:07 PM

Re: seiches and tsunamis Keiva 04/20/02 03:46 PM

Re: Chicago seiche of June 26, 1954 Keiva 04/20/02 04:18 PM

Re: Chicago seiche of June 26, 1954 milum 04/21/02 03:19 AM

White Squall Wordwind 04/21/02 08:11 AM

Re: White Squall Wordwind 04/22/02 08:55 PM

Re: White Squall of troy 04/22/02 09:00 PM

Re: White Squall consuelo 04/22/02 09:14 PM

Re: White Squall milum 04/23/02 12:13 AM

Re: White Squall maverick 04/23/02 08:53 AM

Re: White Squall Wordwind 04/23/02 09:14 AM

Re: White Squall of troy 04/23/02 12:55 PM

Re: Chicago seiche of June 26, 1954 Keiva 04/21/02 01:16 PM

Re: Not for sure rkay 04/19/02 09:41 PM

Re: Thermocline belMarduk 04/20/02 01:10 AM

Re: Thermocline Hyla 04/22/02 05:32 PM

Re: Not for sure of troy 04/19/02 10:27 PM

Re: Not for sure Bean 04/22/02 09:47 PM

Re: Not for sure Wordwind 04/22/02 10:54 PM

Re: Not for sure Bean 04/23/02 11:14 AM

Re: Not for sure of troy 04/22/02 11:42 PM

Re: Not for sure Bean 04/23/02 10:55 AM

Re: Not for sure stales 04/23/02 02:59 PM

Re: Bean's great list! Keiva 04/19/02 11:44 PM

Re: Coriolis Effect Bingley 04/24/02 06:19 AM

Re: Coriolis Effect Bean 04/24/02 02:06 PM

Re: Coriolis Effect Bingley 04/25/02 08:55 AM

Re: Coriolis Effect & Other Oceanographic Terms stales 04/21/02 12:26 PM

Berms in the news Keiva 04/25/02 02:15 PM

Re: Berms in the news wow 04/25/02 02:22 PM

Re: Coriolis Effect TEd Remington 04/21/02 11:29 PM

Re: Coriolis Effect milum 04/22/02 12:58 AM

Re: Coriolis Effect Wordwind 04/22/02 07:14 AM

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