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The married couple has served foamy lattes and fruity Italian sodas out of bookstores, such as Next Chapter Books on Detroit’s East Side, beloved pie shop Sister Pie, and the East Warren Avenue Farmers Market.—Lyndsay C. Green, Freep.com, 3 Oct. 2025 Skim off any foamy impurities with a tablespoon.—Cathy Thomas, Oc Register, 29 Sep. 2025 The indifference extended even to Bubs, foamy, marshmallow-adjacent disks from Sweden that surged on TikTok last year, causing a global shortage.—Hannah Goldfield, New Yorker, 8 Sep. 2025 Their findings, published in Physics of Fluids, suggest that in the future, drinkers may be able to admire a perfectly foamy head for longer before enjoying their first sip.—Bojan Stojkovski, Interesting Engineering, 31 Aug. 2025 See All Example Sentences for foamy
Word History
First Known Use
before the 12th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1
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The first known use of foamy was
before the 12th century
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