What does "froth" mean?
Foam.
Froth
/fɹɒθ/ noun, verb
noun, verb ·Common ·High school level
Meaning at a glance
- Primary sense: Foam.
- Grammar: froth is listed as noun, verb.
- Nearest alternatives: foam, aerate, air, alluvion.
- Useful contrasts: calm, gravity, seriousness.
- Usage evidence: But soon their skins turned cold, for there came a sound of galloping across the moor, and the black mare, dabbled with white froth, went past with trailing bridle and empty saddle.
How to use "froth"
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Definitions
Noun
- 1 Foam. countable, uncountable
"Froth is a very important feature of many types of coffee."
- 2 a mass of small bubbles formed in or on a liquid wordnet
- 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 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 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 To create froth in (a liquid). transitive
"I like to froth my coffee for ten seconds exactly."
- 2 exude or expel foam wordnet
- 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 make froth or foam and become bubbly wordnet
- 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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- 6 become bubbly or frothy or foaming wordnet
- 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."
- 8 To cover with froth. transitive
"A horse froths his chain."
Antonyms
Example
"But soon their skins turned cold, for there came a sound of galloping across the moor, and the black mare, dabbled with white froth, went past with trailing bridle and empty saddle."
Common questions
What is a synonym for "froth"?
Common synonyms include: foam, aerate, air, alluvion, alluvium, ash.
How do you use "froth" in a sentence?
But soon their skins turned cold, for there came a sound of galloping across the moor, and the black mare, dabbled with white froth, went past with trailing bridle and empty saddle.
How do you pronounce "froth"?
Pronounced /fɹɒθ/.
Etymology
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.