Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Frothiness; the state of foaming or being foamy.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The state of being foamy; frothiness.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun obsolete The state or characteristic of being
foamy orfrothy .
Etymologies
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See spumescent.
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Examples
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Boys get the symbolism of that maddened pursuit, the White Whale’s infernal aforethought of ferocity, and all that spumescence.
Kalooki Nights Howard Jacobson 2006
she commented on the word spumescence
See spumescent
July 9, 2008
arby commented on the word spumescence
Sounds quite dirty. *adds to list*
July 9, 2008