different between loamy vs foamy

English

Etymology

loam +? -y

Adjective

loamy (comparative loamier, superlative loamiest)

1. Consisting of loam; partaking of the nature of loam; resembling loam.
   • 1898, J. Meade Falkner, Moonfleet Chapter 4

     Yet there was no time to be lost if I was ever to get out alive, and so I groped with my hands against the side of the grave until I made out the bottom edge of the slab, and then fell to grubbing beneath it with my fingers. But the earth, which the day before had looked light and loamy to the eye, was stiff and hard enough when one came to tackle it with naked hands, and in an hour's time I had done little more than further weary myself and bruise my fingers.

Translations

Anagrams

• Maloy, amylo-

English

Etymology

From Middle English fomy, from Old English f?mi?, f?mi? (“frothy, foamy”), equivalent to foam +? -y.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /f??mi/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /fo?mi/
• Rhymes: -??mi

Adjective

foamy (comparative foamier, superlative foamiest)

1. Full of foam.

   He jumped overboard into the foamy waters of the Atlantic Ocean.

   • 1715–1720, Alexander Pope, The Iliad

     Tlepolemus, the sun of Hercules, / Led nine swift vessels through the foamy seas

   • 1831, William Wordsworth, Yarrow Revisited.

     For busy thoughts the Stream flowed on / In foamy agitation

Synonyms

• frothy, spumescent; see also Thesaurus:effervescent

Translations

Noun

foamy (plural foamies)

1. Alternative spelling of foamie