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Meaning of FOAMY

Pronunciation:  'fowmee

WordNet Dictionary
 
 Definition: 
  1. [adj]  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"
  2. [adj]  producing or covered with lathery sweat or saliva from exhaustion or disease; "the rabid animal's frothing mouth"
  3. [adj]  relating to or containing gas bubbles
  4. [adj]  emitting or filled with bubbles as from carbonation or fermentation; "bubbling champagne"; "foamy (or frothy) beer"
 
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 Synonyms: agitated, bubbling, bubbly, effervescent, effervescing, foaming, frothing, frothy, gaseous, spumous, spumy, sudsy, unhealthy
 

 

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary
 
 Definition: 
\Foam"y\, a.
Covered with foam; frothy; spumy.
      Behold how high the foamy billows ride!  --Dryden.
 
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 Related Terms: airy, barmy, bubbly, downy, ethereal, feathery, fluffy, foam-flecked, frothy, gossamery, heady, imponderous, lathery, leger, light, light as air, lighter than vanity, mousse, soapsuddy, soapsudsy, soapy, souffle, spumose, spumous, spumy, suddy, sudsy, unheavy, volatile, weightless, yeasty
 

 

 

 

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