suds
noun
soapy water.
Used to describe an ongoing action or continuous state that was happening at a specific time in the past.
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That hell aloft was sudsing fast to us, and I was dancing inside to do something beside wait for a drowning.
From Plain Mary Smith A Romance of Red Saunders by Henry Wallace Phillips