Lathery
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech adjective
Quick meaning: Lathery is an adjective meaning Resembling or covered in lather.
Meaning
Resembling or covered in lather.
Example Sentences
They wash their clothes in running streams with lathery weeds—too poor to buy soap.
He cleaned up the basin and flushed the lathery, hairy bits of toilet paper down the water closet.
This new shaving cream isn't as lathery as the old stuff: there just aren't as many bubbles to be had.
“Oh, no!” said Bobbie, greatly shocked; “you don’t rub muslin. You put the boiled soap in the hot water and make it all frothy-lathery—and then you shake the muslin and squeeze it, ever so gently, and all the dirt comes out. […]”
Synonyms for lathery
Depending on context, synonyms include frothy.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include lathlike, lanate, lardy, lardaceous, lardlike, lanated.
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