Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • With foam; frothily.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adverb With foam; frothily.

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  • adverb With foam.

Etymologies

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foaming +‎ -ly

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Examples

  • Assuming they don't go so completely, mouth-foamingly, batshit insane over the next four years that their party disintegrates like the Whigs and Federalists before them, of course.

    Coleman Camp: The Missing Ballots Don't Exist; Officials: Yes, They Do 2009

  • The message is beneath contempt, and is a sort of demagoguery-lite intended to keep the Newtmeister's stock as high as he can manage among the foamingly self-righteous and the devoutly, proudly stupid.

    Ellis Weiner: The Shock of the Newt 2008

  • There you are, helpless and foamingly nuts, unable to act or think properly until you can fight free from this hibernation ...

    Truth Is Stronger Than Fiction 2006

  • Force of police arriving, he recognized in them the conspirators, and laid about him hoarsely, fiercely, staringly, convulsively, foamingly.

    Our Mutual Friend 2004

  • Rushes foamingly forth from the heart of the gloom.

    The Ontario Readers: The High School Reader, 1886 Ontario. Ministry of Education

  • Rushes foamingly forth from the heart of the gloom.

    The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 03 Masterpieces of German Literature Translated into English. in Twenty Volumes Kuno Francke 1892

  • At last they were on their return, and were all grouped together on a little bluff, watching the water pour foamingly through a narrow gorge.

    Taken Alive Edward Payson Roe 1863

  • Aye, I widowed that poor girl when I married her, Starbuck; and then, the madness, the frenzy, the boiling blood and the smoking brow, with which, for a thousand lowerings old Ahab has furiously, foamingly chased his prey -- more a demon than a man!

    Moby Dick: or, the White Whale Herman Melville 1855

  • Aye, I widowed that poor girl when I married her, Starbuck; and then, the madness, the frenzy, the boiling blood and the smoking brow, with which, for a thousand lowerings old Ahab has furiously, foamingly chased his prey -- more a demon than a man!

    Moby Dick, or, the whale Herman Melville 1855

  • Aye, I widowed that poor girl when I married her, Starbuck; and then, the madness, the frenzy, the boiling blood and the smoking brow, with which, for a thousand lowerings old Ahab has furiously, foamingly chased his prey -- more a demon than a man!

    Moby-Dick, or, The Whale 1851

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