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Froth

//fɹɒθ// noun, verb

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    Foam. countable, uncountable

    "Froth is a very important feature of many types of coffee."

  2. 2
    a mass of small bubbles formed in or on a liquid wordnet
  3. 3
    Unimportant or insubstantial talk, events, or actions; drivel. countable, figuratively, uncountable

    "Thousands of African children die each day: why do the newspapers continue to discuss unnecessary showbiz froth?"

  4. 4
    The idle rich. countable, uncountable

    "That it offers the best imaginable field for the economical employment of the least useful of our population, viz. "the froth and the dregs,” those of both extremes of the social scale who prefer adventure, excitement, action, idleness if you will, to steady plodding business ways."

  5. 5
    Highly speculative investment. countable, uncountable

    "Efforts of this kind, spurred on to fever heat by tax incentives can only generate inflationary froth - not real hard investment."

Verb
  1. 1
    To create froth in (a liquid). transitive

    "I like to froth my coffee for ten seconds exactly."

  2. 2
    exude or expel foam wordnet
  3. 3
    (of a liquid) To bubble. intransitive

    "Colder and louder blew the wind, A gale from the Northeast, The snow fell hissing in the brine, And the billows frothed like yeast."

  4. 4
    make froth or foam and become bubbly wordnet
  5. 5
    To spit, vent, or eject, as froth. transitive

    "The Mufti reddens; mark that holy cheek. He frets within, froths treason at his mouth, And churns it thro’ his teeth […]"

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  1. 6
    become bubbly or frothy or foaming wordnet
  2. 7
    (literally) To spew saliva as froth; (figuratively) to rage, vent one's anger. intransitive

    "The clumsy suckling struck out with her still soft claws, opened her frothing mouth until her milk teeth shone."

  3. 8
    To cover with froth. transitive

    "A horse froths his chain."

Etymology

Etymology 1

From Middle English froth, frooth, froþ, likely a borrowing from Old Norse froða, from Proto-Germanic *fruþǭ; Old English āfrēoþan (“to foam, froth”) is from same Germanic root. Verb attested from late 14th century. Compare Swedish fradga.

Etymology 2

From Middle English froth, frooth, froþ, likely a borrowing from Old Norse froða, from Proto-Germanic *fruþǭ; Old English āfrēoþan (“to foam, froth”) is from same Germanic root. Verb attested from late 14th century. Compare Swedish fradga.

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