sprummer

The transition period between spring and summer: late spring.

Noun

  1. The transition period between spring and summer: late spring.
    • SPRUMMER is the Tavistock Repertory Company's season between April and July at the TOWER THEATRE - 1963, Encore - Issues 41-52, page 47:
    • Spring and summer chinook ("sprummer" chinook to the National Marine Fisheries Service) hang on at critically low levels that represent irretrievable loss of invaluable genetic diversity. - 1991, Northwest Energy News:
    • Revising and reassigning the antipodean seasons, he divides spring into a two-month “sprinter” (August–September) and two-month “sprummer” (October–November). - 2013, John Charles Ryan, Toward a phen (omen) ology of the...

Origin

Blend of spring + summer.