foamy
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Middle English fomy, from Old English fāmiġ, fǣmiġ (“frothy, foamy”), from Proto-West Germanic *faimag, *faimīg, equivalent to foam + -y.
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /fəʊmi/
Audio (Southern England): (file) - (General American) IPA(key): /foʊmi/
- Rhymes: -əʊmi
Adjective
[edit]foamy (comparative foamier, superlative foamiest)
- Full of foam.
- He jumped overboard into the foamy waters of the Atlantic Ocean.
- 1715–1720, Homer, translated by Alexander Pope, “(please specify the book of the Iliad or chapter quoted from)”, in The Iliad of Homer, volume (please specify |volume=I to VI), London: […] W[illiam] Bowyer, for Bernard Lintott […], →OCLC:
- Tlepolemus, the sun of Hercules, / Led nine swift vessels through the foamy seas
- 1835, William Wordsworth, “(please specify the poem)”, in Yarrow Revisited, and Other Poems, London: […] Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green, & Longman, […]; and Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC:
- For busy thoughts the Stream flowed on / In foamy agitation
Synonyms
[edit]- frothy, spumescent; see also Thesaurus:effervescent
Derived terms
[edit]Translations
[edit]full of foam
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Noun
[edit]foamy (plural foamies)
- Alternative spelling of foamie
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