Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Foam or froth on a liquid, as on the sea.
- intransitive verb To froth or foam.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Froth; foam; scum; frothy matter raised on liquors or fluid substances by boiling, effervescence, or agitation.
- To froth; foam.
- Same as
spoom .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Frothy matter raised on liquids by boiling, effervescence, or agitation; froth; foam; scum.
- intransitive verb To froth; to foam.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun
Foam orfroth of water, particularly that ofsea water . - verb To
froth .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun foam or froth on the sea
- verb make froth or foam and become bubbly
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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The rest of the time -- fog, spume and relentless, gray oppressive motherhumping rain.
Fortune's Stanley Bing: How Climate Change Is Screwing With Your Average Business Traveler <i>Fortune</i>'s Stanley Bing 2011
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The rest of the time -- fog, spume and relentless, gray oppressive motherhumping rain.
Fortune's Stanley Bing: How Climate Change Is Screwing With Your Average Business Traveler <i>Fortune</i>'s Stanley Bing 2011
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Half an hour later he shut down his account for good, stung by the spume of venom from both his own club's supporters "team do all hard work keeping possession then u hit row Z every fuckin time!!" and those of Northern Ireland, whose advances he turned down in favour of the Republic.
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The rest of the time -- fog, spume and relentless, gray oppressive motherhumping rain.
Fortune's Stanley Bing: How Climate Change Is Screwing With Your Average Business Traveler <i>Fortune</i>'s Stanley Bing 2011
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This spume drove masthead high, and higher, horizontally, above the surface of the sea.
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At Dulwich is a painting, Hero and Leandro for Christopher Marlowe, that is a white misty spume of oceanic spray assailed by a bloody smear of red.
Cy Twombly - an appreciation: Paintings about sex and death 2011
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Never mind that most of his rapping was a spume of spittle and expletives – you expect that at a hip-hop show.
The worst gig we ever played: musicians on their on-stage lows 2011
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On January 6th, 2010 at 7: 29 pm, New Chapters « spume wrote:
Imperfect storage, blogging, new critics, Johnny Apple – sipped and spit | Dr Vino's wine blog 2010
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The streams run dry on poisoned land, where stands the angel of the key, in hailfire strafing spume and sand as fish rot on a wormwood sea.
Archive 2009-07-01 Hal Duncan 2009
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The streams run dry on poisoned land, where stands the angel of the key, in hailfire strafing spume and sand as fish rot on a wormwood sea.
The Lucifer Cantos 9/13 Hal Duncan 2009
jamescridland commented on the word spume
I've always loved this word, although rarely have a chance to use it in conversation, living far away from the sea. This is a shame.
March 22, 2008
bilby commented on the word spume
It's okay, you can do it. I think all of us here have moved house at one time because we found a neighbourhood with a better word in it.
March 22, 2008
reesetee commented on the word spume
Indeed. I know I have.
March 22, 2008
madmouth commented on the word spume
"The sea of spuming thought foists up again
The radiant bubble that she was. And then
A deep up-pouring from some saltier well
Within me, bursts its watery syllable."
-from Wallace Stevens' Le Monocle de Mon Oncle
August 3, 2009
bilby commented on the word spume
How close does the dragon's spume
have to come? How wide does the crack
in heaven have to split?
What would people look like
if we could see them as they are,
soaked in honey, stung and swollen,
reckless, pinned against time?
- Ellen Bass, 'If You Knew'.
September 7, 2009