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foamy

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"Spumy"

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5 lettersPronunciation /ˈfəʊmi/Part of speech adjectiveSorted afmoyStarts with FEnds with Y1 cluesCommon crossword word
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Definitions

  1. producing or covered with lathery sweat or saliva from exhaustion or disease

Word origin

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

Used in a sentence

  • He jumped overboard into the foamy waters of the Atlantic Ocean.
  • Tlepolemus, the sun of Hercules, / Led nine swift vessels through the foamy seas
  • For busy thoughts the Stream flowed on / In foamy agitation

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