afoam

发音

/əˈfoʊm/

释义与例句

adj.
  1. 1.

    In a foaming state; producing foam.

    The sea is all afoam.

  2. 2.

    Covered or filled (with something foaming or resembling foam).

    1988, Charlotte MacLeod (as Alisa Craig), The Grub-and-Stakers Pinch a Poke, New York: Avon, Chapter 6, p. 48, […] Minerva […] arrived with a huge armload of costumes, followed by Zilla and a couple more, all afoam with petticoats.

    2000, Jan Thornhill, “Extremes” in Drought & Other Stories, Dunvegan, ON: Cormorant Books, p. 126, Margot’s thick black hair afoam with Spic and Span, swooshing back and forth across a grimy kitchen floor

adv.
  1. 1.

    In a foaming state.

词源

From a- + foam.

来源：wiktionary