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adjective producing or covered with lathery sweat or saliva from exhaustion or disease
adjective emitting or filled with bubbles as from carbonation or fermentation
originFrom Middle English fomy, from Old English fāmiġ, fǣmiġ (“frothy, foamy”), from Proto-West Germanic *faimag, *faimīg, equivalent to foam + -y.
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