foamy
English
Etymology
From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Middle English fomy, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old English fāmiġ, fǣmiġ (“frothy, foamy”), equivalent to foam + -y.
Pronunciation
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- Rhymes: -əʊmi
Adjective
foamy (comparative foamier, superlative foamiest)
- Full of foam.
- He jumped overboard into the foamy waters of the Atlantic Ocean.
- 1715–1720:Tlepolemus, the sun of Hercules, / Led nine swift vessels through the foamy seas — Alexander Pope, The Iliad
- 1831: For busy thoughts the Stream flowed on / In foamy agitation — William Wordsworth, Yarrow Revisited.
Synonyms
Translations
full of foam
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Noun
foamy (plural foamies)
- Alternative spelling of foamie