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foamy

adj
/ˈfəʊmi/UK/ˈfoʊmi/US

Etymology

From Middle English fomy, from Old English fāmiġ, fǣmiġ (“frothy, foamy”), from Proto-West Germanic *faimag, *faimīg, equivalent to foam + -y.

  1. inherited from *faimag✻
  2. inherited from fāmiġ
  3. inherited from fomy

Definitions

  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 seas
    • For busy thoughts the Stream flowed on / In foamy agitation

  2. Alternative spelling of foamie.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for foamy. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA