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) (file)
(General American) IPA^(key): /foʊmi/
Rhymes: -əʊmi

Adjective

foamy (comparative foamier, superlative foamiest)

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

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)

Alternative spelling of foamie

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