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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

FOAMY, a. Covered with foam; frothy.
Behold how high the foamy billows ride!

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

adj
1: producing or covered with lathery sweat or saliva from exhaustion or disease; "the rabid animal's frothing mouth" [syn: foaming, foamy, frothing]
2: emitting or filled with bubbles as from carbonation or fermentation; "bubbling champagne"; "foamy (or frothy) beer" [syn: bubbling, bubbly, foaming, foamy, frothy, effervescing, spumy]

Merriam Webster's

adjective (foamier; -est) Date: before 12th century 1. covered with foam ; frothy 2. full of, consisting of, or resembling foam • foamily adverb • foaminess noun

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Foamy Foam"y, a. Covered with foam; frothy; spumy. Behold how high the foamy billows ride! --Dryden.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

A foamy liquid has a mass of small bubbles on its surface or consists of a mass of bubbles. ...foamy waves... Whisk the egg whites until they are foamy but not stiff. = frothy ADJ

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

a. Frothy, spumy, spumous.

Moby Thesaurus

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, yeasty