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froth
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Froth \Froth\, n. [OE. frothe, Icel. fro[eth]a; akin to Dan. fraade, Sw. fradga, AS. [=a]freo[eth]an to froth.]
The bubbles caused in fluids or liquors by fermentation or agitation; spume; foam; esp., a spume of saliva caused by disease or nervous excitement.
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Any empty, senseless show of wit or eloquence; rhetoric without thought.
--Johnson.It was a long speech, but all froth.
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Light, unsubstantial matter.
--Tusser.Froth insect (Zo["o]l.), the cuckoo spit or frog hopper; -- called also froth spit, froth worm, and froth fly.
Froth spit. See Cuckoo spit, under Cuckoo.
Froth \Froth\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Frothed; p. pr. & vb. n.. Frothing.]
To cause to foam.
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To spit, vent, or eject, as froth.
He . . . froths treason at his mouth.
--Dryden.Is your spleen frothed out, or have ye more?
--Tennyson. To cover with froth; as, a horse froths his chain.
Froth \Froth\, v. i. To throw up or out spume, foam, or bubbles; to foam; as beer froths; a horse froths.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
c.1300, from an unrecorded Old English word, or else from Old Norse froða "froth," from Proto-Germanic *freuth- "froth" (cognates Swedish fradga, Danish fraade). Old English had afreoðan "to froth," from the same root. The modern verb is late 14c., from the noun. Related: Frothed; frothing.
Wiktionary
n. foam vb. 1 (context transitive English) To create froth in. 2 (context intransitive English) To bubble. 3 To spit, vent, or eject, as froth. 4 To cover with froth.
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Usage examples of "froth".
Although he still wore his armor, Aarhus flinched whenever the froth splashed against him.
The blacks were frothing crazy now, shaking and tearing at their chains and shrieking the name of Amra like an invocation.
They are the froth on the great tide of biotechnics, whose gleam and glitter will adorn the moment while the real power of the surge will come from honest, clear-sighted laborers like myself.
Everything-the soft, interwoven masses of bladderweed and the transparent, hydrogen-filled bladders that swelled at their fringes, the knotty mats of black grass, froths of algae and elaborate nests of ferns-was sopping wet.
Everythingthe soft, interwoven masses of bladderweed and the transparent, hydrogen-filled bladders that swelled at their fringes, the knotty mats of black grass, froths of algae and elaborate nests of fernswas sopping-wet.
He replaced her again breadthwise on the couch, unable to sit up, with her thighs open, between which I could observe a kind of white liquid, like froth, hanging about the outward lips of that recently opened wound, which now glowed with a deeper red.
The succeeding wave of tourists was frothing about them, the Battle of the Beige raging round a question of amatory precedence, the new guide darting hither and thither like a Cardiganshire corgi nipping at the heels of a herd of refractory cows.
It hurries you along through frothing sea and pungent powder smoke and the grim ordeal of Dartmoor Prison with no respite in its traction.
Fashioned of brilliant green silk, the hem was caught up with rosettes to reveal a dauntingly feminine froth of petticoats.
The whistle shrieked from the enginehouse, and the paddle wheels thrashed at the water, whipping it into froth as they tried to drag the ferry out into the current.
Pre-death, these showed, in addition to the effects noted above, symptoms ranging from whimpering to performing a rolling dementia-type motion on the cage floor, sometimes accompanied by shrieking or frothing.
Forgotten the hawthorns themselves, frothing with maybloom along the road, with cowslips and cuckoo-flowers almost hiding the hedge bottoms.
Every garment bore the subtle stamp of a master, from the froth of expensive Mechlin lace at his throat, the abundant fall of the same lace over his long hands, to the exquisite cut of his silver-gray coat and darker gray breeches.
This strange solution to the Maker Quandary -- this turning of Makers into the probes themselves - will soon arrive here, a frothing mass of multiformed human beings.
A great star ship was taking off at the far end of the field, sliding down the ice-smooth plastic skidway with the red-hot flare of booster jets frothing in its tubes.