Middle English Dictionary Entry
fōmī adj.
Entry Info
| Forms | fōmī adj. Also vomi. |
| Etymology | OE fāmig. |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
Foamy; foaming (at the bit), frothing (at the mouth).
Associated quotations
- (c1385) Chaucer CT.Kn.(Manly-Rickert)A.2506 : The fomy [Petw: fominge] steedes on the golden brydel Gnawynge.
- c1425(a1420) Lydg.TB (Aug A.4)3.737 : With fomy bridelis.
- c1430(c1386) Chaucer LGW (Benson-Robinson)1208 : The fomy brydel with the bit of gold.
- c1450(?c1408) Lydg.RS (Frf 16)3699 : The boor..With foomy mouth and tusshes kene.
2.
(a) Full of bubbles, frothy; (b) scummy.
Associated quotations
a
- (a1398) *Trev.Barth.(Add 27944)33b/a : By medlinge of oþir humours, blood changiþ kinde & colour, for by medlinge of colera it semeþ red..and by fleume it semeþ wattri & fomy.
- (a1398) *Trev.Barth.(Add 27944)47b/b : The Spotel is a ffleumatik humour..vomy [L spumosa] & scharp in sauour.
- c1425(a1420) Lydg.TB (Aug A.4)2.4472 : Her schippes werne with tempest to & fro, Þe fomy water grene, white, and blo.
- c1425(a1420) Lydg.TB (Aug A.4)2.5083 : With fomy stremys of þe wawes smale.
- ?c1425 *Chauliac(2) (Paris angl.25)24b/a : Some fomy [*Ch.(1): spumous] substaunce.
b
- (a1398) *Trev.Barth.(Add 27944)258b/a : Þe beste þerof synkeþ doun..And What is fatty and fomy abydeþ, and fleteþ abouen.
3.
Dappled.
Associated quotations
- (?1440) Palladius (DukeH d.2)4.833 : Next hem in merit is dyuers hued: Black bay, & permixt gray..The fomy [L spumeus], spotty hu, and many mo.