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Hoary vs Foamy - What's the difference?

hoary | foamy |

As adjectives the difference between hoary and foamy

is that hoary is white or gray with age while foamy is full of foam.

hoary

English

Adjective

(er)
  • White or gray with age.
    • The old man bowed his hoary head in acquiescence.
  • * 1787 , , "How Firm a Foundation":
    • And when hoary hairs shall their temples adorn,
    Like lambs they shall still in My bosom be borne.
  • (zoology) Of a pale silvery gray.
  • (botany) Covered with short, dense, grayish white hairs; canescent.
  • (obsolete) Remote in time past.
  • (obsolete) Moldy; mossy; musty.
  • Old or old-fashioned.
  • * {{quote-news
    • , year=2012 , date=June 3 , author=Nathan Rabin , title=TV: Review: THE SIMPSONS (CLASSIC): “Mr. Plow” (season 4, episode 9; originally aired 11/19/1992) citation , page= , passage=In its God-like prime, The Simpsons attacked well-worn satirical fodder from unexpected angles, finding fresh laughs in the hoariest of subjects.}}

    Related terms

    * hoar

    Derived terms

    * hoarily * hoariness

    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