Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • In a frothy manner; with foam or spume.
  • Emptily; wordily.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adverb In a frothy manner.

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  • adverb In a frothy way.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • adverb in a frothy manner

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Examples

  • Engagingly harnessed to the period also are the screen-printed portrait photographs of hairy, moustachioed, and frothily side-burned artists posing manfully à la Klondike, the “women” often draped obediently on the floor beside them.

    Psychedelic Denver 2009

  • Engagingly harnessed to the period also are the screen-printed portrait photographs of hairy, moustachioed, and frothily side-burned artists posing manfully à la Klondike, the “women” often draped obediently on the floor beside them.

    Archive 2009-04-01 2009

  • HBO's "Six Feet Under" frothily blended sex and death for five seasons.

    The New Death 2007

  • "I sought to oppose him," gurgled Techotl, blood bubbling frothily to his lips.

    The Conquering Sword Of Conan Howard, Robert E. 2005

  • "I sought to oppose him," gurgled Techotl, blood bubbling frothily to his lips.

    The Conquering Sword of Conan Howard, Robert E. 2005

  • Here floweth all blood putridly and tepidly and frothily through all veins: spit on the great city, which is the great slum where all the scum frotheth together!

    Thus spake Zarathustra; A book for all and none 2001

  • They glimpsed the blood sliding frothily out of the jockey's mouth, choking him as the sharp ends of broken ribs tore his lungs apart.

    Shattered Francis, Dick 2000

  • Yellow curtains billowed back frothily, no doubt serving to hide the cable release that had allowed her to take the picture.

    A Suitable Vengeance George, Elizabeth 1991

  • ` I sought to oppose him, 'gurgled Techotl, blood bubbling frothily to his lips.

    The Conan Chronicles Howard, Robert E. 1989

  • In three wooden tubs, they soaked luxuriantly, washing their hair with scented soap, pouring buckets of hot water over their slippery bodies, watching the suds cascade away as frothily as had the Falls of Ohio.

    The Chisholms Evan Hunter 1976

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