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foam-flecked

foam-flecked adjective: rabid; furious; fanatical.

Adjective

foam-flecked (comparative more foam-flecked, superlative most foam-flecked)

  1. Rabid; furious; fanatical.
    • Now the hostess became his mistress: his love letters were passionate, indiscreet, and hate-filled, featuring Briish military secrets and foam-flecked rants against Jews:2011, Simon Sebag Montefiore, Jerusalem: The Biography – A History of the Middle East, page 558
    • Stephenson had already worked himself into something just short of a foam-flecked tirade by the time Will arrived.2012, Ian Tregillis, Bitter Seeds
  2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see foam, flecked.; covered in flecks of foam.

Forms of foam-flecked

comparativemore foam-flecked
superlativemost foam-flecked

Origin of foam-flecked

A reference to the way a rabid animal foams at the mouth.

Questions about foam-flecked

What does foam-flecked mean?
Foam-flecked means rabid; furious; fanatical.
What part of speech is foam-flecked?
Foam-flecked is an adjective.

Words near foam-flecked in the dictionary

  1. foam roller
  2. foam rollers
  3. foam rubber
  4. foam rubbers
  5. foam up
  6. foam-flecked
  7. foamabilities
  8. foamability
  9. foamable
  10. foamback
  11. foamboard

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