Froth

/fɹɒθ/ · noun

Meaning

Foam..

Definitions by Sense

1. Foam.
2. (figuratively) Unimportant or insubstantial talk, events, or actions; drivel.
3. The idle rich.
4. (business) Highly speculative investment.
5. (transitive) To create froth in (a liquid).
6. (intransitive) (of a liquid) To bubble.
7. (transitive) To spit, vent, or eject, as froth.
8. (intransitive) (literally) To spew saliva as froth; (figuratively) to rage, vent one's anger.

Example Sentences

Froth is a very important feature of many types of coffee.

He replaced her again breadthwise on the couch, unable to sit up, with her thighs open, between which I could observe a kind of white liquid, like froth, hanging about the outward lips of that recently opened wound, which now glowed with a deeper red.

Froth or scum at the paper machine consists largely of clay, rosin, and starch.

Shortly after we started, while still off the lower end of the island, we sighted a steep point on the coast where the sea was in a great state of turmoil, white with soapy froth.

Thousands of African children die each day: why do the newspapers continue to discuss unnecessary showbiz froth?

The discussion at the conference was mostly froth and posturing.

But is it possible for those who speak of God promiscuously and at random, is it possible that they should utter his Name with reverence, when all the rest of the Discourse is nothing but Froth and Levity?

They are equally useless and equally ridiculous, but the coquet is the most pernicious: his mind is a vacuum, and hers a plenum; froth itself is too ponderous for the one, and nothing but froth is crammed into the other.

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• froths
• frothing
• frothed

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