Froth

Word FROTH
Character 5
Hyphenation froth
Pronunciations /fɹɑθ/

Definitions and meanings of "Froth"

What do we mean by froth?

A mass of bubbles in or on a liquid; foam. noun

Salivary foam released as a result of disease or exhaustion. noun

Something unsubstantial or trivial. noun

High prices unwarranted by economic fundamentals. noun

A fit of anger or vexation. noun

To cover with foam. intransitive verb

To cause to foam. intransitive verb

To exude or expel foam. intransitive verb

The collection of bubbles caused in a liquid by fermentation or agitation; spume; foam. noun

Any foamy matter, as the foam at the mouth or on the sides of an over-driven horse. noun

Something comparable to froth, as being light, unsubstantial, or evanescent. noun

To foam; give out spume, foam, or foam-like matter.

To cause to foam, as beer; cause froth to rise on the top of.

To emit or discharge as froth; hence, to vent or give expression to, as what is unsubstantial or worthless: sometimes with out.

To cover with froth: as, “the horse froths his bit,”

To throw up or out spume, foam, or bubbles; to foam; as beer froths; a horse froths. intransitive verb

To cause to foam. transitive verb

To spit, vent, or eject, as froth. transitive verb

To cover with froth. transitive verb

The bubbles caused in fluids or liquors by fermentation or agitation; spume; foam; esp., a spume of saliva caused by disease or nervous excitement. noun

Foam

Unimportant events or actions; drivel

Synonyms and Antonyms for Froth

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The word "froth" in example sentences

But froth is usually characterized by investors bidding up every deal in sight. ❋ Lynn Cowan (2010)

Comments (19) ... and before the first shovel of dirt was dug up the developer said, "the froth is off the market". ❋ Unknown (2009)

The ceiling above us bubbled, like the froth from a punctured battery, and the brown clouds parted in places as if sliced at from above. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Loved “the froth from a punctured battery” and all of the careful word choices that helped to create the tone of this piece. ❋ Unknown (2008)

The froth is treated with a reusable solvent that separates out most of the remaining water and clay, and partially upgrades the bitumen. ❋ Unknown (2005)

Another indicator that has sent many market watchers into a froth has been the descent in the CBOE Market Volatility Index VIX. ❋ Bernie Schaeffer (2006)

Such fish as are neither oviparous nor viviparous arise all from one of two sources, from mud, or from sand and from decayed matter that rises thence as a scum; for instance, the so-called froth of the small fry comes out of sandy ground. ❋ Unknown (2002)

Soon after the addition of the yeast, a brownish froth, which is really new yeast, issues from the aperture, and falls like a cataract into troughs prepared to receive it. ❋ John Tyndall (1856)

The Russians - Putin especially - are accustomed to thinking in outcomes, not diplomatic froth, which is why the second most powerful statesman in the world could take to the stage claiming he knew nothing of the WikiLeaks furore which cast his government as collaborators with organised crime in a "mafia state". ❋ Paul Hayward (2010)

The rest is interesting, but from a nuts and bolts point of view, it constitutes what Boris Vian used to call froth on the daydream. ❋ Unknown (2009)

The debates also put Brown at a disadvantage against his two younger and more telegenic rivals, leading the prime minister to say in the final days that the campaign had focused too much on style and personality -- "froth," he called it -- rather than substantive policy differences among the parties. ❋ Unknown (2010)

In his typical argot, the Fed chairman would only admit that he saw some "froth" in the mortgage markets, while completely missing the blitzkrieg that would nearly take out the global financial system in 2008 and leave some of the major players like Goldman Sachs, Citi and Bank of America virtual wards of the state while taxpayers bailed them out. ❋ Unknown (2010)

The result of this surge in easy money for the wealthy, combined with deregulation in the financial markets, was the "froth" Greenspan worried about and led us straight into the Second Republican Great Depression, ongoing today. ❋ Unknown (2009)

One of the elements that goes into such a calculation is the belief that people will "froth" whenever the power is abused. ❋ Ann Althouse (2009)

Greenspan kept rates low as a matter of policy and denied the existence of the bubble (just some "froth"). ❋ Unknown (2008)

He dismissed as 'froth' all the speculation of the past few weeks - which is rich, given that most of it was whipped up by his own acolytes. ❋ Unknown (2007)

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