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foamy, a.|ˈfəʊmɪ|
Forms: 1 fámiᵹ, fǽmiᵹ, 4–7 fomy, -ie, 6 foomy, Sc. famy, 7– foamy.
[OE. fámiᵹ, fǽmiᵹ, f. fám, foam.]
1. Covered with foam, full of foam, frothy.
a1000Riddles iv. 19 (Gr.) Famiᵹ winneð wæᵹ wið wealle. c1385Chaucer L.G.W. 1208 Dido, The fomy brydil with the bit of gold Governyth he. 1513Douglas æneis xii. vi. 151 The fomy mowthis of the haisty stedis. 1697Dryden Virg. Georg. iv. 589 The slipp'ry God..With foamy Tusks will seem a bristly Boar. 1748Warton Enthusiast 30 Whence a foamy stream, Like Anio, tumbling roars. 1816W. Taylor in Monthly Mag. XLI. 331 They drain the foamy mug. 1821Moir in Blackw. Mag. X. 642 The wild waves curl their bleak and foamy heads.
2. Consisting of, or of the nature of, foam; of, pertaining to, or resembling foam.
1398Trevisa Barth. De P.R. iv. vi. (1495) 89 By medlynge of colera blood semyth redde..by flewme it semyth watry and fomy. 1601Holland Pliny II. 397 The foamie moisture that shel-snails yeeld. 1784Cowper Task vi. 155 The foamy surf That the wind severs from the broken wave. 1878R. W. Gilder Poet & Master 14 The foamy whitening Of the water below the mill. 1881Mallock Rom. 19th Cent. II. 196 A cloud of foamy lilac-blossom.
Hence ˈfoaminess.
1887Fenn Devon Boys xviii. 184 The waves lost their fierce foaminess. |