This new shaving cream isn't as lathery as the old stuff: there just aren't as many bubbles to be had.
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Lathery
Synonyms for "lathery" (7 found)
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Translations
4 translations across 3 languages.
Bulgarian
1 entries- насапунисан adj (resembling or covered in lather)
German
2 entries- schaumig adj (resembling or covered in lather)
- schäumend adj (resembling or covered in lather)
Swedish
1 entries- löddrig adj (resembling or covered in lather)
Sample sentences
5 total sentences available.
1824, James Atkinson, “Peer Mahommud; The Moralist,” stanza 51, in The City of Palaces, Calcutta: Government Gazette Press, p. 128, Thus rapidly my little tale advances, And now we come to him, who lives to shave! The lathery Knight of Razors, not of lances, And without question more a fool than knave.
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“Oh, no!” said Bobbie, greatly shocked; “you don’t rub muslin. You put the boiled soap in the hot water and make it all frothy-lathery—and then you shake the muslin and squeeze it, ever so gently, and all the dirt comes out. […]”
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They wash their clothes in running streams with lathery weeds—too poor to buy soap.
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