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Spindrift vs Spume - What's the difference?

spindrift | spume |

As nouns the difference between spindrift and spume

is that spindrift is sea spray blown from the tops of waves by the wind while spume is foam or froth of liquid, particularly that of sea water.

As a verb spume is

to froth.

spindrift

English

Noun

  • sea spray blown from the tops of waves by the wind
  • snow blown by the wind at sea

    • spume

    English

    Noun

    (-)
  • Foam or froth of liquid, particularly that of sea water.
  • * (John Milton) (1608-1674)
    • Materials dark and crude, / Of spiritous and fiery spume .
  • * {{quote-book, year=1892, author=(James Yoxall)
    • , chapter=5, title= The Lonely Pyramid , passage=The desert storm was riding in its strength; the travellers lay beneath the mastery of the fell simoom.
  • * 1906 , (Jack London), , part I, ch I,
    • Their breath froze in the air as it left their mouths, spouting forth in spumes of vapour that settled upon the hair of their bodies and formed into crystals of frost.

    Derived terms

    * (l) * (l)

    Verb

    (spum)
  • To froth.
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