Foamy
WordNet
adjective
(1) 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"
(2) Producing or covered with lathery sweat or saliva from exhaustion or disease
"The rabid animal's frothing mouth"
(3) Relating to or containing gas bubbles
(4) Emitting or filled with bubbles as from carbonation or fermentation
"Bubbling champagne"
"Foamy (or frothy) beer"
WiktionaryText
Adjective
- Full of foam.
- He jumped overboard into the foamy waters of the Atlantic Ocean.
Quotations
- 1715–1720:Tlepolemus, the sun of Hercules, / Led nine swift vessels through the foamy seas — Alexander Pope, The Iliad
- 1831: For busy thoughts the Stream flowed on / In foamy agitation — William Wordsworth, Yarrow Revisited.