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foamy

adjective

No English definition recorded for this entry.

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Wiktionary

Pronunciation: /ˈfəʊmi/ / /ˈfoʊmi/

adj

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

  1. Full of foam.

    He jumped overboard into the foamy waters of the Atlantic Ocean.

    Tlepolemus, the sun of Hercules, / Led nine swift vessels through the foamy seas

noun

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

  1. Alternative spelling of foamie.