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Definition of Foamy
1. Adjective. Producing or covered with lathery sweat or saliva from exhaustion or disease. "The rabid animal's frothing mouth"
2. Adjective. Emitting or filled with bubbles as from carbonation or fermentation. "Foamy (or frothy) beer"
Similar to: Effervescent
Derivative terms: Bubble, Bubbliness, Foam, Foaminess, Froth, Frothiness, Spume
Definition of Foamy
1. a. Covered with foam; frothy; spumy.
Definition of Foamy
1. Adjective. Full of foam. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Foamy
1. covered with foam [adj FOAMIER, FOAMIEST]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Foamy
Literary usage of Foamy
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Tramp Abroad by Mark Twain (1880)
"After one passes the last of these he has a backward glimpse at the falls which
is very pleasing—they rise in a seven-stepped stairway of foamy and ..."
2. The Boston Cooking-school Cook Book by Fannie Merritt Farmer (1896)
"By careful watching and constant stirring, the ingredients will be perfectly
blended; it should be creamy in consistency. foamy Sauce I. % cup butter. ..."
3. Surgery, Gynecology & Obstetrics by The American College of Surgeons, Franklin H. Martin Memorial Foundation (1915)
"(6) A mass of chordoma tissue consisting of a number of indefinitely outlined
nuclei in a mass of foamy substance which represents the vesicular ..."
4. A Glossary: Or, Collection of Words, Phrases, Names, and Allusions to by Robert Nares, James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps, Thomas Wright (1901)
"... Spight of his foamy tushes, and thui strike him, "Pill lie fall down my prey.
B. and Ft. Beggar's Bulh, iii, S. If I proposed any alteration, ..."
5. The Boys' and Girls' Readers: Teachers' Manual of Silent and Oral Reading by Emma Miller Bolenius (1919)
"How foamy Chops was caught. 2. How he was fed. 3. What Lizette came to mean to him.
4. How he became tame. 5. How the Duck and the Lamb became his playmates ..."
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