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froth
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun froth has 1 sense
- froth(n = noun.object) foam - a mass of small bubbles formed in or on a liquid; "the beer had a thick head of foam" has particulars: shaving foam, head, lather, lather, soapsuds, suds, spume, white water, whitewater
is a kind of bubble
Derived forms verb froth2, verb froth1, adjective frothy1
Verb froth has 3 senses
- froth(v = verb.change) effervesce, fizz, foam, form bubbles, sparkle - become bubbly or frothy or foaming; "The boiling soup was frothing"; "The river was foaming"; "Sparkling water" is one way to bubble
- froth(v = verb.change) spume, suds - make froth or foam and become bubbly; "The river foamed" is one way to create, make
- froth(v = verb.body) Array - exude or expel foam; "the angry man was frothing at the mouth" is one way to exudate, exude, ooze, ooze out, transude
Derived form noun froth1
Sample sentence:
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Derived form noun froth1
Sample sentence:
Something ----s
Sample sentences:
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CIDE DICTIONARY
froth, n. [OE. frothe, Icel. fro&edh;a; akin to Dan. fraade, Sw. fradga, AS. āfreo&edh;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. [1913 Webster]
- Any empty, senseless show of wit or eloquence; rhetoric without thought. Johnson. [1913 Webster]"It was a long speech, but all froth." [1913 Webster]
- Light, unsubstantial matter. Tusser. [1913 Webster]
froth, v. t.
- To cause to foam. [1913 Webster]
- To spit, vent, or eject, as froth. [1913 Webster]"He . . . froths treason at his mouth." [1913 Webster]"Is your spleen frothed out, or have ye more?" [1913 Webster]
- To cover with froth; as, a horse froths his chain. [1913 Webster]
froth, v. i.
To throw up or out spume, foam, or bubbles; to foam; as beer froths; a horse froths. [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
froth, n. & v.
--n.
1 a a collection of small bubbles in liquid, caused by shaking, fermenting, etc.; foam. b impure matter on liquid, scum.
2 a idle talk or ideas. b anything unsubstantial or of little worth.
--v.
1 intr. emit or gather froth (frothing at the mouth).
2 tr. cause (beer etc.) to foam.
--n.
1 a a collection of small bubbles in liquid, caused by shaking, fermenting, etc.; foam. b impure matter on liquid, scum.
2 a idle talk or ideas. b anything unsubstantial or of little worth.
--v.
1 intr. emit or gather froth (frothing at the mouth).
2 tr. cause (beer etc.) to foam.
Idiom
froth-blower Brit. joc. a beer-drinker (esp. as a designation of a member of a charitable organization).
Derivative
frothily adv. frothiness n. frothy adj. (frothier, frothiest).
Etymology
ME f. ON frotha, frauth f. Gmc
THESAURUS
froth
aerate, air, alluvion, alluvium, ash, babble, beat, breakers, bric-a-brac, bubble, bubbles, chaff, chicken feed, chickenshit, chip, cinder, clinker, cobweb, collar, cork, cream, deposition, deposits, details, diluvium, down, draff, dregs, dribble, drivel, drool, dross, dust, effervesce, ember, ether, expectoration, fairy, feather, feces, fizz, flippancy, flue, fluff, foam, frivolity, fuzz, gab, gas, gibberish, gimcrackery, gossamer, grounds, head, hot air, knickknackery, lather, lees, levity, lightness, loess, mantle, meringue, minutiae, moraine, mote, mousse, mouth-watering, nonsense, offscum, peanuts, piffle, plash, precipitate, precipitation, ptyalism, puff, rubbish, saliva, salivate, salivation, scoria, scud, scum, sea foam, sediment, settlings, shower, sialagogue, silt, sinter, slabber, slag, slaver, slobber, slosh, small beer, small change, smut, soapsuds, soot, souffle, sparge, spatter, spindrift, spit, spittle, splash, splatter, sponge, spoondrift, spray, sprinkle, spume, sputum, stinging, straw, sublimate, sud, suds, surf, swash, thistledown, trash, trifles, trivia, trumpery, twaddle, whip, whisk, white water, yeastROGET THESAURUS
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Uncleanness
N uncleanness, impurity, immundity, immundicity, impurity, defilement, contamination, defoedation, soilure, soiliness, abomination, leaven, taint, tainture, fetor, decay, putrescence, putrefaction, corruption, mold, must, mildew, dry rot, mucor, rubigo, slovenry, slovenliness, squalor, dowdy, drab, slut, malkin, slattern, sloven, slammerkin, slammock, slummock, scrub, draggle-tail, mudlark, dust-man, sweep, beast, dirt, filth, soil, slop, dust, cobweb, flue, smoke, soot, smudge, smut, grit, grime, raff, sossle, sozzle, sordes, dregs, grounds, lees, argol, sediment, settlement heeltap, dross, drossiness, mother, precipitate, scoriae, ashes, cinders, recrement, slag, scum, froth, hogwash, ditchwater, dishwater, bilgewater, rinsings, cheeseparings, sweepings, offscourings, outscourings, off scum, caput mortuum, residuum, sprue, fecula, clinker, draff, scurf, scurfiness, exuviae, morphea, fur, furfur, dandruff, tartar, riffraff, vermin, louse, flea, bug, chinch, mud, mire, quagmire, alluvium, silt, sludge, slime, slush, slosh, sposh, spawn, offal, gurry, lientery, garbage, carrion, excreta, slough, peccant humor, pus, matter, suppuration, lienteria, faeces, feces, excrement, ordure, dung, crap, shit, sewage, sewerage, muck, coprolite, guano, manure, compost, dunghill, colluvies, mixen, midden, bog, laystall, sink, privy, jakes, toilet, john, head, cess, cesspool, sump, sough, cloaca, latrines, drain, sewer, common sewer, Cloacina, dust hole, sty, pigsty, lair, den, Augean stable, sink of corruption, slum, rookery, dirty, filthy, grimy, unclean, impure, soiled, not to be handled with kid gloves, dusty, snuffy, smutty, sooty, smoky, thick, turbid, dreggy, slimy, mussy, slovenly, untidy, messy, uncleanly, unkempt, sluttish, dowdy, draggle-tailed, uncombed, unscoured, unswept, unwiped, unwashed, unstrained, unpurified, squalid, lutose, slammocky, slummocky, sozzly, nasty, coarse, foul, offensive, abominable, beastly, reeky, reechy, fetid, decayed, moldy, musty, mildewed, rusty, moth-eaten, mucid, rancid, weak, bad, gone bad, etercoral, lentiginous, touched, fusty, effete, reasty, rotten, corrupt, tainted, high, flyblown, maggoty, putrid, putrefactive, putrescent, putrefied, saprogenic, saprogenous, purulent, carious, peccant, fecal, feculent, stercoraceous, excrementitious, scurfy, scurvy, impetiginous, gory, bloody, rotting, rotten as a pear, rotten as cheese, crapulous, gross, fimetarious, fimicolous, they that touch pitch will be defiled.Bubble
N bubble; cloud, bubble, foam, froth, head, spume, lather, suds, spray, surf, yeast, barm, spindrift, cloud, vapor, fog, mist, haze, steam, geyser, scud, messenger, rack, nimbus, cumulus, woolpack, cirrus, stratus, cirrostratus, cumulostratus, cirrocumulus, mackerel sky, mare's tale, dirty sky, curl cloud, frost smoke, thunderhead, nephelognosy, nephograph, nephology, effervescence, fermentation, bubbling, nebula, cloudliness, nebulosity, bubbling, frothy, nappy, effervescent, sparkling, mousseux, frothy, up, cloudy, thunderheaded, vaporous, nebulous, overcast, the lowring element scowls o'er the darkened lands.VB bubble, boil, foam, froth, mantle, sparkle, guggle, gurgle, effervesce, ferment, fizzle.
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