Sekirov Dictionary

froth

/ˈfɹɒθ/

verb 5
noun 4
forms 4
phrases 1

verb5

•
To create froth in (a liquid).
- I like to froth my coffee for ten seconds exactly.
•
(of a liquid) To bubble.
- Colder and louder blew the wind, A gale from the Northeast, The snow fell hissing in the brine, And the billows frothed like yeast. — 1842
•
To spit, vent, or eject, as froth.
- The Mufti reddens; mark that holy cheek. He frets within, froths treason at his mouth, And churns it thro’ his teeth […] — 1690
•
(literally) To spew saliva as froth; (figuratively) to rage, vent one's anger.
- The clumsy suckling struck out with her still soft claws, opened her frothing mouth until her milk teeth shone. — 1958
•
To cover with froth.
- A horse froths his chain.

noun4

•
Foam.
- Froth is a very important feature of many types of coffee.
•
Highly speculative investment.
- Efforts of this kind, spurred on to fever heat by tax incentives can only generate inflationary froth - not real hard investment. — 1966
•
(figurative) Unimportant or insubstantial talk, events, or actions; drivel.
- Thousands of African children die each day: why do the newspapers continue to discuss unnecessary showbiz froth?
- The discussion at the conference was mostly froth and posturing.
•
The idle rich.
- I do not think that there were in the boxes or the lower part of the house a score of persons who were not identified, in one way or another, with this froth of New York society. — 1899

forms

frothed · frothing · frotheth · froths

Phrases with froth

froth up
To become frothy; to rise with a frothy surface or covered with something resembling froth.

This dictionary works without the internet: on your phone · in Chrome