different between spume vs whitecap

English

Etymology

From Middle English spume, from Old French espume, from Latin sp?ma.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /spju?m/
• Rhymes: -u?m

Noun

spume (countable and uncountable, plural spumes)

1. Foam or froth of liquid, particularly that of seawater.
   • 1855, Robert Browning, “Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came”, XIX:

     No sluggish tide congenial to the glooms; / This, as it frothed by, might have been a bath / For the fiend's glowing hoof - to see the wrath / Of its black eddy bespate with flakes and spumes.

   • 1906, Jack London, White Fang, part I, ch I,

     Their breath froze in the air as it left their mouths, spouting forth in spumes of vapour that settled upon the hair of their bodies and formed into crystals of frost.

Derived terms

• spumous
• spumy

Translations

Verb

spume (third-person singular simple present spumes, present participle spuming, simple past and past participle spumed)

1. To froth.

Anagrams

• pumse

Italian

Noun

spume f

1. plural of spuma

Middle English

Alternative forms

• spome (Northern)

Etymology

Borrowed from Old French espume, from Latin sp?ma.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?spiu?m(?)/

Noun

spume (uncountable)

1. spume, foam

Related terms

• spumen
• spumous

Descendants

• English: spume

References

• “sp?me, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

English

Etymology

white +? cap

Noun

whitecap (plural whitecaps)

1. Any of several birds having a white patch on the head
2. A wave having a white crest; a breaker
3. (US, historical) A member of a self-appointed vigilante committee that carried out lynchings. Some early ones wore white hoods or masks.

   Synonym: whitecapper

Derived terms

• whitecapping

References

• whitecap at OneLook Dictionary Search
• whitecap on Wikipedia.Wikipedia