spumyadj.
/ˈspjuːmi/, U.S. /ˈspjumi/ 1. Covered with, throwing up, of the nature of, sea-foam.
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the world > the earth > water > flow or flowing > wave > foam or surf > [adjective]
fumish1574
spumy1582
surfy1738
ginger beery1849
1582 R. Stanyhurst tr. Virgil First Foure Bookes Æneis iii. 59 Thee rocks sternelye facing with salt fluds spumye be drumming.
1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Georgics iii, in tr. Virgil Wks. 107 The spumy Waves proclaim the watry War. View more context for this quotation
1741 H. Brooke Constantia The Tiber now their spumy keels divide.
1797 T. Park Sonnets 7 High o'er the beech froths up the spumy spray.
1819 H. Busk Banquet ii. 164 The spumy Rhone, or easy-winding Loire.
1894 Outing 24 264/2 Great rollers, with their crest torn into spumy wreaths, rose higher and higher.
2. Of a frothy character or consistency; characterized by the presence of froth.
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the world > matter > gas > gas or air in liquid or effervescence > [adjective] > full of or covered with foam or froth > consisting or of the nature of foam or froth
spumousc1400
spumose1576
foamy1601
frothy1605
spumya1618
spumiform1805
spumescent1856
a1618 J. Sylvester tr. G. Fracastoro Maidens Blush (1620) sig. D4v Swelling Clusters.., Whose spumy Juice in Pharao's cup I crush.
1626 G. Sandys tr. Ovid Metamorphosis vii. 137 Cerberus..on the grasse his spumy poyson sheds.
1641 R. Hatton in J. Wilkins Mercury sig. A6v Though what the Author write prove spumy Froth.
1740 W. Somervile Hobbinol iii. 89 Matrons sage..Grasp the capacious Bowl; nor cease to draw The spumy Nectar.
1788 R. Burns Poems & Songs (1968) I. 426 Some spumy, fiery, ignisfatuus matter.
1819 J. Keats Chorus of Faries 4 in Let. 21 Apr. (1958) II. clix. 97 Let me see the myriad shapes..wrough[t] by spumy bitumen.
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