foamy

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

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈfəʊmi/

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• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈfoʊmi/
• Rhymes: -əʊmi

foamy (comparative foamier, superlative foamiest)

1. 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

• frothy, spumescent; see also Thesaurus:effervescent

foamy (plural foamies)

1. Alternative spelling of foamie.