froth

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His mouth froths, and the froth is the word.

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  1. noun A mass of bubbles in or on a liquid; foam.
  2. noun Salivary foam released as a result of disease or exhaustion.
  3. noun Something unsubstantial or trivial.

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  • I hardly care to look back into the seething depths of the working and boiling mass that lay beneath all this froth, and indeed I hardly know whether I could give myself any clear account of it. —  The Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley
  • We know that just below the froth is the deep, wide, terrible, irresistible, arrowy flood, surging all the other way Yes, my son Well, Mother, when I killed the Shore-lark, that was froth going the wrong way, I did love the little bird. —  Two Little Savages Being the adventures of two boys who lived as Indians and what they learned
  • We know that just below the froth is the deep, wide, terrible, irresistible, arrowy flood, surging all the other way. " —  Two Little Savages Being the adventures of two boys who lived as Indians and what they learned
  • His mouth froths, and the froth is the word. —  Les Misérables
  • Green GOOSEBERRY WINE To every quart of gooseberries, take a quart of spring water, bruise them in a mortar, put the water to them and let them stand two or three days, then strain it off, and to every gallon of liquor put three pounds and a half of sugar, then put it into the barrel, and it will of itself rise to a froth, which take off, and keep the barrel full; when the froth is all work'd off, bung it up for six weeks, then rack it off, and when the lees are clean taken out, put the wine into the same barrel; and to every gallon put half a pound of sugar, made in syrrup, and when cold mix with wine; to every five gallons, have an ounce of isinglass, dissolv'd in a little of the wine, and put in with the syrrup, so bung it up; when fine, you may either bottle it or draw it out of the vessel. —  English Housewifery Exemplified in above Four Hundred and Fifty Receipts Giving Directions for most Parts of Cookery
 

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foam ·  saliva ·  swirl ·  billow ·  slime ·  puddle ·  spray ·  flake ·  lather ·  surf ·  bubble ·  mist
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Etymologies (3)

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  1. Middle English, from Old Norse frodha.

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  1. from Middle English frothe, from Anglo-Saxon *froth (not recorded; = Icelandic frodha, feminine, also fraudh, n., = Swedish fradga = Danish fraade), froth, from freóthan, past participle *frothen, only in comp. ā-freóthan, froth.
  2. from Middle English frothen; = Swedish fradga = Danish fraade, v.; from the noun. Cf. Anglo-Saxon ā-freóthan, v., under froth, n.
 

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