Hypertext Webster Gateway: "foamy"

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

Foamy \Foam"y\, a.
Covered with foam; frothy; spumy.

Behold how high the foamy billows ride! --Dryden.

From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)

foamy
adj 1: relating to or containing gas bubbles [syn: {frothy}]
2: emitting or filled with bubbles as from carbonation or
fermentation; "bubbling champagne"; "foamy (or frothy)
beer" [syn: {bubbling}, {bubbly}, {foaming}, {frothy}, {effervescing}]
3: producing or covered with lathery sweat or saliva from
exhaustion or disease; "the rabid animal's frothing mouth"
[syn: {foaming}, {frothing}]
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" [syn: {bubbling}, {foaming},
{frothing}, {spumous}, {spumy}, {sudsy}]


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