scoon

English

Etymology

Possibly from Dutch scun (“skim along”) and cognate with shunt (“to cause to move (suddenly)”).

Verb

scoon (third-person singular simple present scoons, present participle scooning, simple past and past participle scooned)

(transitive, intransitive) To skim along (a surface) like a vessel on the water.

References

Oxford English Dictionary, 1884–1928, and First Supplement, 1933.

Anagrams

Coons, coons

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