froth

Plural: froths

Noun

• a mass of small bubbles formed in or on a liquid
• Foam.
• Unimportant or insubstantial talk, events, or actions; drivel.
• The idle rich.
• Highly speculative investment.

Verb

Verb Forms: frothed, frothing, froths

• To form or cause to form a mass of small bubbles.
• become bubbly or frothy or foaming
  • "The boiling soup was frothing"
• make froth or foam and become bubbly
• exude or expel foam
  • "the angry man was frothing at the mouth"
• To create froth in (a liquid).
• (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.

Examples

• A horse froths his chain.
• Froth is a very important feature of many types of coffee.
• I like to froth my coffee for ten seconds exactly.
• The discussion at the conference was mostly froth and posturing.
• The excitement would froth up as the game neared its thrilling conclusion.
• Thousands of African children die each day: why do the newspapers continue to discuss unnecessary showbiz froth?

Synonyms

effervesce, fizz, foam, form bubbles, sparkle, spume, suds

Anagrams of froth