Meanings
comparative foamier · superlative foamiest
- Full of foam.
He jumped overboard into the foamy waters of the Atlantic Ocean.
2 more examples
Tlepolemus, the sun of Hercules, / Led nine swift vessels through the foamy seas
1715–1720, Homer, “(please specify the book of the Iliad or chapter quoted from)”, in Alexander Pope, transl., The Iliad of Homer, volume (please specify |volume=I to VI), London: […] W[illiam] Bowyer, for Bernard Lintott […], →OCLCFor busy thoughts the Stream flowed on / In foamy agitation
1835, William Wordsworth, “(please specify the poem)”, in Yarrow Revisited, and Other Poems, London: […] Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green, & Longman, […]; and Edward Moxon, […], →OCLCSynonyms: frothy, spumescent
Synonyms & antonyms
adjectiveFull of foam.
More synonyms by meaning
adjectiveproducing or covered with lathery sweat or saliva from exhaustion or disease
adjectiveemitting or filled with bubbles as from carbonation or fermentation
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
- Proto-West Germanic*faimag
- Old Englishfāmiġ
- Middle Englishfomy
- Englishfoamy
From Middle English fomy, from Old English fāmiġ, fǣmiġ (“frothy, foamy”), from Proto-West Germanic *faimag, *faimīg, equivalent to foam + -y.
More words from Middle English, Old English, Proto-West Germanic
Full word history & related roots →Translations
Bulgarian пенлив, пенест
- пенлив (penliv)full of foam
- пенест (penest)full of foam
Catalan escumós
- escumósfull of foam
Esperanto ŝaŭma
- ŝaŭmafull of foam
Finnish vaahtoinen, vaahtoava
- vaahtoinenfull of foam
- vaahtoavafull of foam
French mousseux
- mousseuxfull of foam
German schaumig, schäumend
- schaumigfull of foam
- schäumendfull of foam
- Schaum-full of foam
Greek αφρώδης
- αφρώδης (afródis)full of foam
Latin spūmeus
- spūmeusfull of foam
Polish pienisty
- pienistyfull of foam
Romanian spumos
- spumosfull of foam
Russian пе́нистый, пе́нный
- пе́нистый (pénistyj)full of foam
- пе́нный (pénnyj)full of foam
Spanish esponjoso, espumoso
- esponjosofull of foam
- espumosofull of foam
Turkish köpüklü
- köpüklüfull of foam
Yiddish שוימיק
- שוימיק (shoymik)full of foam
Rhymes & wordplay
Rhymes with foamy
All rhymes →Cite this entry
foamy. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/foamy
“foamy.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/foamy. Accessed November 2, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “foamy,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/foamy.
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