foamy

English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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

• Audio (Southern England):

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• (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, Homer, [Alexander] Pope, transl., “(please specify the book of the Iliad or chapter quoted from)”, in The Iliad of Homer, volumes (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

Synonyms

• frothy, spumescent; see also Thesaurus:effervescent

Derived terms

• foamily
• foaminess

Translations

full of foam

• Bulgarian: пенлив (bg) (penliv), пенест (bg) (penest)
• Catalan: escumós
• Esperanto: ŝaŭma
• Finnish: vaahtoinen
• French: mousseux (fr)
• Galician: escumoso m
• German: schaumig (de), schäumend (de), Schaum- (de)
• Greek: αφρώδης (el) m (afródis)
• Latin: spūmeus
• Occitan: escumós
• Plautdietsch: schumich
• 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