What does afoam mean?
Afoam means In a foaming state; producing foam..
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/əˈfoʊm/ · adjective
In a foaming state; producing foam..
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
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
mighty horns of ale, and cups of gold afoam / With strong nut-coloured mead
Use afoam when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Afoam means In a foaming state; producing foam..
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The opposite depends on the specific sense.
The sea is all afoam.
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