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Foamy vs Caramel - What's the difference?

foamy | caramel |

As an adjective foamy

is full of foam.

As a noun caramel is

a smooth, chewy, sticky confection made by heating sugar and other ingredients until the sugars polymerize and become sticky.

foamy

English

Adjective

(er)
  • Full of foam.
    • He jumped overboard into the foamy waters of the Atlantic Ocean.
  • * 1715–1720':Tlepolemus, the sun of Hercules, / Led nine swift vessels through the '''foamy seas — Alexander Pope, ''The Iliad
  • * 1831': For busy thoughts the Stream flowed on / In '''foamy agitation — William Wordsworth, ''Yarrow Revisited .

    • Synonyms

    * frothy, spumescent

    caramel

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A smooth, chewy, sticky confection made by heating sugar and other ingredients until the sugars polymerize and become sticky.
  • A (sometimes hardened) piece of this confection.
  • A yellow-brown color.

    • Usage notes

    Both the two syllable and the three syllable pronunciations are very common in all regions of the United States, but the trisyllabic pronunciation is more common than the disyllabic one in the South (excluding western Texas), northern New Jersey, eastern New York and New England, while the disyllabic one is more common than the trisyllabic one in other regions. Dialect Survey map 1], showing that both pronunciations are common in all regions, and [http://spark.rstudio.com/jkatz/SurveyMaps/ map 2, showing which regions the di- and tri-syllabic pronunciations predominate in

    Derived terms

    * caramelise, caramelize

    See also

    * fudge, toffee

    Anagrams

    * * *

    References

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