froth Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun a mass of small bubbles formed in or on a liquid
    foam.
    • the beer had a thick head of foam
  2. verb become bubbly or frothy or foaming
    foam; effervesce; sparkle; form bubbles; fizz.
    • The boiling soup was frothing
    • The river was foaming
    • Sparkling water
  3. verb make froth or foam and become bubbly
    spume; suds.
    • The river foamed
  4. verb exude or expel foam
    • the angry man was frothing at the mouth

WordNet

Froth noun
Etymology
OE. frothe, Icel. frotha; akin to Dan. fraade, Sw. fradga, AS. afreothan to froth.
Definitions
  1. The bubbles caused in fluids or liquors by fermentation or agitation; spume; foam; esp., a spume of saliva caused by disease or nervous excitement.
  2. Any empty, senseless show of wit or eloquence; rhetoric without thought. Johnson.
    It was a long speech, but all froth. L'Estrange.
  3. Light, unsubstantial matter. Tusser.
Froth transitive verb
Wordforms
imperfect & past participle Frothed ; present participle & verbal noun Frothing
Definitions
  1. To cause to foam.
  2. To spit, vent, or eject, as froth.
    He . . . froths treason at his mouth. Dryden.
    Is your spleen frothed out, or have ye more? Tennyson.
  3. To cover with froth; as, a horse froths his chain.
Froth intransitive verb
Definitions
  1. To throw up or out spume, foam, or bubbles; to foam; as beer froths; a horse froths.

Webster 1913