Spumy, Spumous adj. Consisting of, containing, or covered with, froth, scum, or foam; frothy; foamy. "The spumous and florid state of the blood.""The spumy waves proclaim the watery war."
... our great excitement of the year. The channel was never the same for two successive seasons. Every spring the swollen stream undermined a bluff to the east, or bit out a few acres of corn field to the west and whirled the soil away to deposit it in spumy mud banks somewhere else. When the water fell low in midsummer, new sand-bars were thus exposed to dry and whiten in the August sun. Sometimes these were banked so firmly that the fury of the next freshet failed to unseat them; the little willow seedlings emerged triumphantly from the ... — A Collection of Stories, Reviews and Essays • Willa Cather
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