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Foam vs Goam - What's the difference?

foam | goam |

As verbs the difference between foam and goam

is that foam is to form or emit foam while goam is to see, to recognize, to take notice of.

As a noun foam

is a substance composed of a large collection of bubbles or their solidified remains.

foam

English

Noun

  • A substance composed of a large collection of bubbles or their solidified remains.
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  • (by extension) Sea foam; (figuratively) the sea.

    • Derived terms

    * foamy

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To form or emit foam.
  • * Bible, Mark ix. 18
    • He foameth , and gnasheth with his teeth.
  • * 1877 , (Anna Sewell), (Black Beauty) Chapter 23[http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Black_Beauty/23]
    • What I suffered with that rein for four long months in my lady's carriage, it would be hard to describe, but I am quite sure that, had it lasted much longer, either my health or my temper would have given way. Before that, I never knew what it was to foam at the mouth, but now the action of the sharp bit on my tongue and jaw, and the constrained position of my head and throat, always caused me to froth at the mouth more or less.

    goam

    English

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (lb) To see, to recognize, to take notice of.
  • * 1866 , The United Presbyterian magazine , page 359:
    • One of Mr Scott's elders, who came from the west, used to meet Mrs Scott on her way to Jedburgh, when he never goamed her; but when he met her returning in the afternoon he always lifted his hat, and made obeisance.
  • * 1884 , Charles Stuart, David Blythe: The Gipsy King : a Character Sketch , page 131:
    • He never goamed the lassie afterwards, and, in his despair, he began to drink, and drank heavily. He knew his rival by sight, and, knowing the road he would take to reach his home, Scott waylaid and beat him to death on Greenlaw Muir.
  • * 1897 , Peter Hay Hunter, John Armiger's Revenge , page 21:
    • "He never goam'd me," the aggrieved countryman would say with much bitterness.

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