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foamy
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Adjective foamy has 2 senses
- foamy(s = adj.all) foaming, frothing - producing or covered with lathery sweat or saliva from exhaustion or disease; "the rabid animal's frothing mouth"
- foamy(s = adj.all) bubbling, bubbly, effervescing, foaming, frothy, spumy - emitting or filled with bubbles as from carbonation or fermentation; "bubbling champagne"; "foamy (or frothy) beer" Derived forms noun foam1, noun foaminess1
CIDE DICTIONARY
foamy, a.
Covered with foam; frothy; spumy. [1913 Webster]
"Behold how high the foamy billows ride!"
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THESAURUS
foamy
airy, barmy, bubbly, downy, ethereal, feathery, fluffy, foam-flecked, frothy, gossamery, heady, imponderous, lathery, leger, light, light as air, lighter than vanity, mousse, soapsuddy, soapsudsy, soapy, souffle, spumose, spumous, spumy, suddy, sudsy, unheavy, volatile, weightless, yeastyROGET THESAURUS
foamy
Softness
N softness, pliableness, flexibility, pliancy, pliability, sequacity, malleability, ductility, tractility, extendibility, extensibility, plasticity, inelasticity, flaccidity, laxity, penetrability, clay, wax, butter, dough, pudding, alumina, argil, cushion, pillow, feather bed, down, padding, wadding, foam, mollification, softening, soft, tender, supple, pliant, pliable, flexible, flexile, lithe, lithesome, lissom, limber, plastic, ductile, tractile, tractable, malleable, extensile, sequacious, inelastic, aluminous, remollient, yielding, flabby, limp, flimsy, doughy, spongy, penetrable, foamy, cushiony, flaccid, flocculent, downy, edematous, oedematous, medullary, argillaceous, mellow, soft as butter, soft as down, soft as silk, yielding as wax, tender as chicken.
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