foamy

Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

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Definition

adjective producing or covered with lathery sweat or saliva from exhaustion or disease
adjective emitting or filled with bubbles as from carbonation or fermentation

From Middle English fomy, from Old English fāmiġ, fǣmiġ (“frothy, foamy”), from Proto-West Germanic *faimag, *faimīg, equivalent to foam + -y.

One of Eva Gilson's foamy negligees. — Free Air, Sinclair Lewis
Actium surveys the well-disputed prize; Leucate’s wat’ry plain with foamy billows fries. — The Aeneid, Virgil
Mirelle was standing by the window in a peignoir of foamy lace. — The mystery of the Blue Train, Agatha Christie

foaming, frothing

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