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spume

noun

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verb

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Wiktionary

Pronunciation: /spjuːm/

noun

Etymology: From Middle English spume, from Old French espume, from Latin spūma.

  1. Foam or froth of liquid, particularly that of seawater.

    “Materials dark and crude, / Of spiritous and fiery spume.”

    “No sluggish tide congenial to the glooms; / This, as it frothed by, might have been a bath / For the fiend's glowing hoof - to see the wrath / Of its black eddy bespate with flakes and spumes.”

verb

Etymology: From Middle English spume, from Old French espume, from Latin spūma.

  1. To froth.