spume
verb (used with object)
to eject or discharge as or like foam or froth; spew (often followed byforth ).
spumy
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a word derived from
spume.
Example Sentences
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The savior of the world appears in this painting as a soft, spumy cipher.
From New York Times ● Nov. 15, 2017
The British film industry paid for his next film, Man of Aran, an almost too beautiful picture of life on a great spumy boulder set in a western sea.
From Time Magazine Archive
The ridges had become walls, with great frothing crests and sides that were smeared with spumy lines.
From For Jacinta by Harold Bindloss
Rain poured over the street-lamps in gauzy, iridescent ribbons; it wove spumy lace upon the black roadway and trailed, fuming, into the gutters.
From Caravans By Night A Romance of India by Harry Hervey
There was a faint radiance around the shut door of the mess hall, and Madden walked toward it rather unsteadily, with the spumy brine dashing into his face.
From The Cruise of the Dry Dock by T. S. Stribling
