spumy

9.9

Covered in foam and small bubbles

adjective

: espumoso

She poured the spumy drink into a glass, watching the bubbles rise to the surface.

Examples

After shaking the can, he opened it to a spumy explosion of soda.
The spumy sea created a dazzling display as waves crashed against the rocks.
The water surged and troughed, straight-walled drops to the spumy, roiling foam.

Fiction book (1999)

Synonyms

bubbly

vsspumy

24 3.2

Full of small bubbles, like sparkling water

emphasizes foam or froth caused by agitation rather than general bubble formation

fizzy

vsspumy

10 1.6

Having many small bubbles that rise in the drink

applies to foam from carbonation or agitation across contexts, not only drinks

frothy

vsspumy

8 3.2

A liquid with many small bubbles and a layer of foam

is chiefly used for foam caused by carbonation or agitation

foamy

vsspumy

6 2.2

Covered with many small bubbles, like the top of a cappuccino

focuses on foam from carbonation or agitation rather than body fluids

foaming

vsspumy

2.9

A liquid with many small bubbles on the surface, like beer

is used for foam from carbonation or agitation rather than mere surface bubbles

bubbling

vsspumy

2.2

Having many small rising bits of air, like a fizzy drink

focuses on foam or froth presence rather than only filled with bubbles

effervescing

vsspumy

7.4

Full of small bubbles like fizzy water

highlights visible foam from agitation or carbonation rather than just gas release

How Frothy

effervescent

1 7.3

spumy

9.9

bubbly

24 3.2

frothy

8 3.2

foamy

6 2.2

Surface Forms

spumy positive

Morphology

spumy = spume (transparent) = spume + y

The adjective 'spumy' is transparently derived from the noun 'spume' with the addition of the suffix '-y', indicating a characteristic of having foam.

Etymology

The word spumy comes from the Latin spuma, which means 'foam', and it is like the old English word spume that also meant foam. So, to call something spumy is to say it is covered with or full of 'foam' or bubbles.