foamy

foamy

English

Etymology

From Middle English fomy, from Old English fāmiġ, fǣmiġ (“frothy, foamy”), equivalent to foam +‎ -y.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /fəʊmi/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /foʊmi/
• Rhymes: -əʊmi

Adjective

foamy (comparative foamier, superlative foamiest)

1. 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) Finnish: vaahtoinen French: mousseux (fr) Galician: escumoso m German: schaumig, schäumend (de), Schaum- (de) Greek: αφρώδης (el) m (afródis)

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

Noun

foamy (plural foamies)

1. Alternative spelling of foamie