Froth Definition

frôth, frŏth
frothed, frothing, froths
noun
froths
A whitish mass of bubbles; foam.
Webster's New World
Foaming saliva caused by disease or great excitement.
Webster's New World
Something unsubstantial or trivial.
American Heritage
Light, trifling, or worthless talk, ideas, etc.
Webster's New World
High prices unwarranted by economic fundamentals.
A housing market with a lot of froth.
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verb
frothed, frothing, froths
To cause to foam.
Webster's New World
To cover with foam.
Webster's New World
To produce froth; foam.
Webster's New World
To spill forth like foam.
Webster's New World

(intransitive) To bubble.

The chemical frothed up when I added the acid.
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Origin of Froth

  • Noun attested around 1300, from Old Norse froða, from Proto-Germanic *fruþōn; Old English afreoðan (“to froth”) is from same Germanic root. Verb attested from late 14th century.

    From Wiktionary

  • Middle English from Old Norse frodha

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

Froth Sentence Examples

  • When cold, froth can be immediately dissipated by adding a few drops of ether.

  • Anger and humiliation boiled up inside her and spilled over in a froth of rage.

  • These bubbles float to the top of the glass and make a froth.

  • The boiler is heated by a furnace, and the oil is brought gradually to the point of ebullition, at which it is maintained for two hours, during which time moisture is driven off, and the scum and froth which accumulate on the surface are ladled out.

  • As the small filings produced by friction seek to pass through the interstices between the rapidly revolving spherical particles in the vortex, they are detained and become twisted and channelled in their passage, and when they reach the edge of the inner ocean of solar dust they settle upon it as the froth and foam produced by the agitation of water gathers upon its surface.

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