[syn: froth, spume, suds]
3. exude or expel foam;
- Example: "the angry man was frothing at the mouth"
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Froth \Froth\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Frothed; p. pr. & vb. n..
Frothing.]
1. To cause to foam.
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2. To spit, vent, or eject, as froth.
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He . . . froths treason at his mouth. --Dryden.
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Is your spleen frothed out, or have ye more?
--Tennyson.
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3. To cover with froth; as, a horse froths his chain.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Froth \Froth\, v. i.
To throw up or out spume, foam, or bubbles; to foam; as beer
froths; a horse froths.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Froth \Froth\, n. [OE. frothe, Icel. fro[eth]a; akin to Dan.
fraade, Sw. fradga, AS. [=a]freo[eth]an to froth.]
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1. 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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2. Any empty, senseless show of wit or eloquence; rhetoric
without thought. --Johnson.
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It was a long speech, but all froth. --L'Estrange.
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3. Light, unsubstantial matter. --Tusser.
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Froth insect (Zool.), the cuckoo spit or frog hopper; --
called also froth spit, froth worm, and froth fly.
Froth spit. See Cuckoo spit, under Cuckoo.
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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
froth
n 1: a mass of small bubbles formed in or on a liquid; "the beer
had a thick head of foam" [syn: foam, froth]
v 1: become bubbly or frothy or foaming; "The boiling soup was
frothing"; "The river was foaming"; "Sparkling water" [syn:
foam, froth, fizz, effervesce, sparkle, form
bubbles]
2: make froth or foam and become bubbly; "The river foamed"
[syn: froth, spume, suds]
3: exude or expel foam; "the angry man was frothing at the
mouth"
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
132 Moby Thesaurus words for "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,
yeast