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Frothy   /frˈɔθi/   Listen
adjective
Frothy  adj.  (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.
3.
Of the nature of froth; light; empty; unsubstantial; as, a frothy speaker or harangue.





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"Frothy" Quotes from Famous Books



... Bones, indignantly waving a frothy shaving brush at the other, "what the dooce is ...
— Bones - Being Further Adventures in Mr. Commissioner Sanders' Country • Edgar Wallace
... if it had been very cunningly made by the nicest goldsmith in the world. Its little bones were now golden wires; its fins and tail were thin plates of gold; and there were the marks of the fork in it, and all the delicate, frothy appearance of a nicely fried fish, exactly ...
— The New McGuffey Fourth Reader • William H. McGuffey
... the liberties he owns he has heretofore taken in ridiculing the marriage-state. It is a subject, he says, that he has not of late treated so lightly. He owns it to be so trite, so beaten a topic with all libertines and witlings; so frothy, so empty, so nothing meaning, so worn-out a theme, that he is heartily ashamed of himself, ever to have made it his. He condemns it as a stupid reflection upon the laws and good order of society, and ...
— Clarissa, Volume 2 (of 9) • Samuel Richardson
... high rock ending in a point, whence issued a stream of water as thick as a large barrel, which made so great a noise in its fall as to be heard on board the ships; yet many affirmed that it was only a white vein in the rock, the water was so white and frothy by reason of its rapid fall. Going on shore to view a kind of town, they found no parson there except some children, all the people having fled into the woods. To the arms of these children they tied some baubles, to allure their ...
— A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels, Vol. III. • Robert Kerr
... own, indeed! Nice Guilds they'd be! Why, the meetings would be bear gardens. What do you know about how to conduct a Society? When I was a Junior I trusted to the wisdom of the Seniors, instead of listening to every newcomer who talked frothy nonsense. I tell you, it is the monitresses who are your best friends, and who can decide what's good for you. Are you going to change the whole of our Briarcroft organizations at the bidding of a girl who has only been in the ...
— The Leader of the Lower School - A Tale of School Life • Angela Brazil


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