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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)

  1. Full of foam.
    He jumped overboard into the foamy waters of the Atlantic Ocean.
    • 17151720: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.

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