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foamy

UK/ˈfəʊmi/ US/ˈfoʊmi/ fairly common

adjective

1.

relating to or containing gas bubbles

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2.

emitting or filled with bubbles as from carbonation or fermentation

  • “bubbling champagne”
  • “foamy (or frothy) beer”
3.

producing or covered with lathery sweat or saliva from exhaustion or disease

  • “the rabid animal”
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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”

Origin

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

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