froth.
Foam.
Meaning & usage
Foam.
Froth is a very important feature of many types of coffee.
Unimportant or insubstantial talk, events, or actions; drivel.
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.
The idle rich.
Highly speculative investment.
Where this word comes from
From Middle English froth, frooth, froþ, likely a borrowing from Old Norse froða, from Proto-Germanic *fruþǭ; Old English āfrēoþan (“to foam, froth”) is from same Germanic root. Verb attested from late 14th century. Compare Swedish fradga.
To create froth in (a liquid).
I like to froth my coffee for ten seconds exactly.
(of a liquid) To bubble.
To spit, vent, or eject, as froth.
(literally) To spew saliva as froth; (figuratively) to rage, vent one's anger.
To cover with froth.
A horse froths his chain.
Where this word comes from
From Middle English froth, frooth, froþ, likely a borrowing from Old Norse froða, from Proto-Germanic *fruþǭ; Old English āfrēoþan (“to foam, froth”) is from same Germanic root. Verb attested from late 14th century. Compare Swedish fradga.
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