Meaning of afoam | Babel Free

Definitions

1. In a foaming state; producing foam.
   not-comparable
2. Covered or filled (with something foaming or resembling foam).
   not-comparable

Examples

“The sea is all afoam.”

“MacTurk, being summoned, came with steed afoam.”

““Well, this old great-grandfather [whale], with the white head and hump, runs all afoam into the pod, and goes to snapping furiously at my fast-line.””

“Sunday beer / Afoam in silver rumkins”

“a tugboat hauling barges, its bow afoam pushing its way through the ripples and waves”

“mighty horns of ale, and cups of gold afoam / With strong nut-coloured mead”

“The garden was afoam with starry white cosmos backed by the stately phalanx of the Prince’s Feather.”

“1988, Charlotte MacLeod (as Alisa Craig), The Grub-and-Stakers Pinch a Poke, New York: Avon, Chapter 6, p. 48, […] Minerva […] arrived with a huge armload of costumes, followed by Zilla and a couple more, all afoam with petticoats.”

“2000, Jan Thornhill, “Extremes” in Drought & Other Stories, Dunvegan, ON: Cormorant Books, p. 126, Margot’s thick black hair afoam with Spic and Span, swooshing back and forth across a grimy kitchen floor”

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