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noun

Froth n.

The bubbles caused in fluids or liquors by fermentation or agitation; spume; foam; esp., a spume of saliva caused by disease or nervous excitement.

Any empty, senseless show of wit or eloquence; rhetoric without thought. "It was a long speech, but all froth."

Light, unsubstantial matter.

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.

verb

Froth v. t. (past & past part. frothed; pres. part. frothing)

To cause to foam.

To spit, vent, or eject, as froth. "He... froths treason at his mouth." "Is your spleen frothed out, or have ye more?"

To cover with froth; as, a horse froths his chain.

Froth v. i. To throw up or out spume, foam, or bubbles; to foam; as beer froths; a horse froths.

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"Froth" Quotes from Famous Books

... consecration once a week. Daniel could not have described these things, nor did he speak of them, which was a pity. Once and once only in the ferment of free thought he had uncorked his soul, and it had run over with much froth, and thenceforward old Mendel Hyams and Beenah, his wife, opposed more furrowed foreheads to a world too strong for them. If Daniel had taken back his words and told them he was happier for the ruin they had made of his prospects, ...

— Children of the Ghetto • I. Zangwill

... at home; she was to take the eight-o'clock train next morning to the city. The young lady's mood was unequal: sometimes she drooped; anon would break forth into much talk and merriment, which would evaporate almost as quickly as the froth of champagne. This was her first departure from home, and the ease, freedom, and beloved old ways of home-life, assumed more of their true value in her eyes. She had acquired a sentiment of awe for Aunt Margaret's grandeur. ...

— Bressant • Julian Hawthorne

... earth at first With feeble force and lonely murmurs burst, From myriad unseen fountains draw the rills And curl contentious round their hundred hills, Meet, froth and foam, their dashing currents swell, O'er crags and rocks their furious course impel, Impetuous plunging plough the mounds of earth, And tear the fostering flanks that gave them birth; Mad with the strength ...

— The Columbiad • Joel Barlow

... things must, in a paroxysm of howling, with a touch of froth at the lips. She lay spent and motionless beside Kim, ...

— Kim • Rudyard Kipling

... record of the froth of life," he said softly to himself. "One soiled evening glove, a faded rose, a woman's tears,—they pass. What can one do—we poor others who have to drive the ...

— The Mischief Maker • E. Phillips Oppenheim

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