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Spoofed vs Spoomed - What's the difference?

spoofed | spoomed |

As verbs the difference between spoofed and spoomed

is that spoofed is (spoof) while spoomed is (spoom).

As an adjective spoofed

is parodied.

spoofed

English

Adjective

(-)
  • Parodied.
  • (of an email) Made to appear to have come from someone other than the real sender.

    • Verb

    (head)
  • (spoof)
  • * 2005': Nowhere in “Spamalot” is traditional stage naturalism more brilliantly '''spoofed than when King Arthur and his faithful servant, the well-named Patsy (the excellent Michael McGrath), first ride into view. — ''The New Yorker , 28 March 2005

    • spoomed

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (spoom)

    • spoom

    English

    Alternative forms

    * (l)

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (nautical) 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.
  • * 17th century : John Dryden
    • When virtue spooms before a prosperous gale, / My heaving wishes help to fill the sail.