foamy
adjUK /ˈfəʊmi/ · US /ˈfoʊmi/
Etymology From Middle English fomy, from Old English fāmiġ, fǣmiġ (“frothy, foamy”), from Proto-West Germanic *faimag, *faimīg, equivalent to foam + -y.
1
Full of foam.
- He jumped overboard into the foamy waters of the Atlantic Ocean.
- Tlepolemus, the sun of Hercules, / Led nine swift vessels through the foamy seas1715–1720, 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:
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- For busy thoughts the Stream flowed on / In foamy agitation1835, William Wordsworth, “(please specify the poem)”, in Yarrow Revisited, and Other Poems, London: […] Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green, & Longman, […]; and Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC:
- Synonyms
- frothy, spumescent