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The Collaborative International Dictionary
foamy

foamy \foam"y\ (f[=o]m"[y^]), a. Covered with foam; frothy; spumy.

Behold how high the foamy billows ride!
--Dryden.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
foamy

Old English faemig "covered with foam;" see foam (n.) + -y (2). Related: Foaminess.

Wiktionary
foamy

a. Full of foam.

WordNet
foamy
  1. adj. relating to or containing gas bubbles [syn: frothy]

  2. emitting or filled with bubbles as from carbonation or fermentation; "bubbling champagne"; "foamy (or frothy) beer" [syn: bubbling, bubbly, foaming, frothy, effervescing]

  3. producing or covered with lathery sweat or saliva from exhaustion or disease; "the rabid animal's frothing mouth" [syn: foaming, frothing]

  4. covered with or resembling small bubbles as from being agitated by beating or heating; "the bubbling candy mixture"; "a cup of foaming cocoa"; "frothy milkshakes"; "frothy waves"; "spumy surf" [syn: bubbling, foaming, frothing, spumous, spumy, sudsy]

  5. [also: foamiest, foamier]

Wikipedia
Foamy (disambiguation)

Foamy may refer to:

  • Having a foam-like texture
  • Foamy the squirrel, a character in the webtoon, Neurotically yours
  • Foamy the Freakadog, a briefly appearing sidekick to the eponymous superhero on the Freakazoid! television show

Usage examples of "foamy".

Seawolf responded to the rudder, the nose cone avoiding the pier to the south of Pier 4 as the vessel moved into the channel and a violent white foamy wake boiled up aft at the rudder.

But O, build it strong and stanch, And to the lines and the treacherous rocks look well as yon launch Over the foamy tops of the waves, and their foam-sprent sides, Over the hidden reefs, and through the embattled tides, Onward rushes the raft, with many a lurch and leap,-- Lord!

The skyscape, as if under the hand of a dissatisfied sculptor, kept re-creating its cauliflower fields, snowy mountains, foamy forests, and lakes of mist.

There was the creek, bordered by bebb willows and alamos and brimming with a brown, foamy torrent.

The long sea-swell could be seen breaking over the rocks in the bay, forming a foamy fringe.

Those aboard the craft heard the sound of the fast-approaching watercraft and saw the foamy rooster tail it was creating in its wake.

December 12, 1963, Customs Interventor Ignacio Gonzales Baz reported sighting and photographing two ball-shaped globs of foamy material which had bounced past the checking station and caught in the mesquite.

He dredged up a few foamy drops from such a vat and looked at them through a microscope and noticed that the tiny globules of the yeasts he found in them sprouted buds from their sides, buds like seeds sprouting.

An aproned girl -- his daughter by the look of her -- set a pitcher of foamy ale in the center of the table.

They could be found anywhere in the length and breadth of the sewers, but they made their permanent homes in some of the churchlike red-brick vaults toward the east, at the confluence of many of the churning foamy waters.

He hurled its foamy contents to silence the ridicule and doused their small pocket of decorum.

There, on the dun, wet sands, beyond the foamy tongues of the surf, would lie the worn and curious driftage of alien shores, and trove that hur ricanes had cast up from unsounded deeps.

He aimed the nozzle without fear and squirted the foamy green liquid into the farthest offshoot, making certain that no air spaces remained.

There, on the dun, wet sands, beyond the foamy tongues of the surf, would lie the worn and curious driftage of alien shores, and trove that hur- ricanes had cast up from unsounded deeps.

Both desperately rubbed their foamy eyes like slapstick actors who had taken cream pies in the face.