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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
frothy
adjective
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ It's not a superscientific exhibition, but kind of frothy and nice for summer.
▪ Order a frothy cappuccino and sit back and relax.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Beat egg whites and sugar until whites are frothy.
▪ Everywhere was perfumed, frothy with flowers.
▪ Impressively blackened rocks loomed large, their outer edges darkly green against the frothy white-capped waves.
▪ In the other three novels frothy dialogue and sparkling wit tend to overshadow the deeper philosophical issues at stake.
▪ They collected steaming mugs of frothy coffee and sat down opposite the gleaming silver water boiler.
▪ Whip it into a frothy, intoxicating potion.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Frothy

Frothy \Froth"y\, a. [Compar. Frothier; superl. Frothiest.]

  1. Full of foam or froth, or consisting of froth or light bubbles; spumous; foamy.

  2. Not firm or solid; soft; unstable.
    --Bacon.

  3. Of the nature of froth; light; empty; unsubstantial; as, a frothy speaker or harangue.
    --Tillotson.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
frothy

1530s, "full of foam," from froth + -y (2). Meaning "vain, light, insubstantial" is from 1590s. Related: Frothiness.

Wiktionary
frothy

a. 1 foamy or churned to the point of becoming infused with bubbles. 2 (context figurative English) lightweight; lacking depth or substance

WordNet
frothy
  1. adj. emitting or filled with bubbles as from carbonation or fermentation; "bubbling champagne"; "foamy (or frothy) beer" [syn: bubbling, bubbly, foaming, foamy, effervescing]

  2. relating to or containing gas bubbles [syn: foamy]

Usage examples of "frothy".

I hate those guys -- the self-righteous, hardworking, antisexist types who get all frothy over gender issues.

The three girls watched the swirling currents and the white and brown frothy foam that clung to the trunks of the young river gums and clumps of tea-trees.

To Icebones, the rumble of the deep water was a distinct noise under the frothy din of the surface world, like the far-off call of a thunderstorm, or the giant crack of a distant glacier calving an iceberg.

Soon the girl was seated once again upon his shoulders, this time facing backward, shuddering to the strokes of his tongue, whilst the woman knelt in the frothy water to suckle his manhood.

Frat boys cruised in their impeccably clean racing-green Miatas and cherry-red Camaro ragtops, with their impeccably blonde dates, all square shoulders, frothy dresses and big white teeth.

Forsythia and spirea sprawled across the grass, and a gnarled old apple tree had flung itself into an extravagance of frothy bloom, as if it knew this might be its final outburst.

I wiped down the walls, scrubbed the baseboards and floors until the soapy water turned a frothy pink.

The chalet was a frothy cluster of onion domes and flanged turrets and reticulations in the style called Arabian Nights Dymaxion.

All around us in gray toppers and frothy dresses the Ascot crowd swirled, a feast to the eye in the sunshine, a ritual in make-believe, a suppression of gritty truth.

The Yanks could not have made us more welcome, and we were straight in there, drinking frothy cappuccino and having a quick root through.

The Captain's outskirts looked frothy, like the brine left on a rockpool by the retreating tide.

Thoughts, ideas, memories, fantasies, and facts have been rolling up randomly from his stream of consciousness like waves of frothy water rise in wild, scattered patterns from a river that is rushing over a bouldered bed.

Usually we would hie to the Old Black Wolf, a public house serving indifferent meals and rude lodging to unwary travelers, but also beer to the local population of sots and soldiersmarvelous beer which they cellared in oaken casks in underground vaults so it became cool and dark and frothy and vastly superior to the thin, tepid brew made at home.

She entered the crowded chamber, pushing in beside Dayna and crouching for a closer look at Carey, checking his torso, looking for a wound to cause the bright frothy blood she saw.

Damon picked up his frothy concoction of summer fruit and alcohol, watched with interest as Talley sampled one of the delicacies of Pell and reacted with pleasure.