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Webster 1913 Edition

foamy

foam′y

(fōm′y̆)

,

Adj.

Covered with foam; frothy; spumy.

Behold how high the

foamy

billows ride!

Dryden.

Webster 1828 Edition

Foamy

FOAMY

,

Adj.

Covered with foam; frothy.

Behold how high the foamy billows ride!

Definition 2024

foamy

foamy

English

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

frothy, spumescent

Translations

full of foam

Bulgarian: пенлив (bg) ‎(penliv), пенест (bg) ‎(penest)
French: mousseux (fr)
German: schaumig, schäumend (de), Schaum- (de)
Greek: αφρώδης (el) m ‎(afródis)

Romanian: spumos (ro)
Russian: пе́нистый (ru) ‎(pénistyj), пе́нный (ru) ‎(pénnyj)
Spanish: esponjoso (es) m (material), espumoso (es) (liquid)
Turkish: köpüklü (tr)