Definition of "afoam" in English

adjective

1. In a foaming state; producing foam.

   • The sea is all afoam.

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

adverb

1. In a foaming state.