Froth

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  • noun. A mass of bubbles in or on a liquid; foam.
  • noun. Salivary foam released as a result of disease or exhaustion.
  • noun. Something unsubstantial or trivial.
  • noun. High prices unwarranted by economic fundamentals.
  • noun. A fit of anger or vexation.
  • intransitive verb. To cover with foam.
  • intransitive verb. To cause to foam.
  • intransitive verb. To exude or expel foam.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. The collection of bubbles caused in a liquid by fermentation or agitation; spume; foam.
  • noun. Any foamy matter, as the foam at the mouth or on the sides of an over-driven horse.
  • noun. Something comparable to froth, as being light, unsubstantial, or evanescent.
  • To foam; give out spume, foam, or foam-like matter.
  • To cause to foam, as beer; cause froth to rise on the top of.
  • To emit or discharge as froth; hence, to vent or give expression to, as what is unsubstantial or worthless: sometimes with out.
  • To cover with froth: as, “the horse froths his bit,”
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • intransitive verb. To throw up or out spume, foam, or bubbles; to foam; as beer froths; a horse froths.
  • transitive verb. To cause to foam.
  • transitive verb. To spit, vent, or eject, as froth.
  • transitive verb. To cover with froth.
  • noun. The bubbles caused in fluids or liquors by fermentation or agitation; spume; foam; esp., a spume of saliva caused by disease or nervous excitement.
  • noun. Any empty, senseless show of wit or eloquence; rhetoric without thought.
  • noun. Light, unsubstantial matter.
  • noun. the cuckoo spit or frog hopper; -- called also froth spit, froth worm, and froth fly.
  • noun. See Cuckoo spit, under Cuckoo.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. foam
  • noun. unimportant events or actions; drivel
  • verb. To create froth.
  • verb. To bubble.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • verb. exude or expel foam
  • verb. make froth or foam and become bubbly
  • noun. a mass of small bubbles formed in or on a liquid
  • verb. become bubbly or frothy or foaming
  • Word Usage
    "But froth is usually characterized by investors bidding up every deal in sight."
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    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    create  make  
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Roth  auth  broth  cloth  doth  
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    billow  blur  bubble  droplet  flake  
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    aerate  air  alluvion  alluvium  ash  
    verb-form
    frothed  frothing  froths