froth
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Etymology [edit]
Noun attested around 1300, from Old Norse froða, from Proto-Germanic *fruþōn; Old English afreoðan (“to froth”) is from same Germanic root. Verb attested from late 14th century.[1]
Pronunciation [edit]
Noun [edit]
froth (uncountable)
- foam
- Froth is a very important feature of many types of coffee.
- 1749, John Cleland, Fanny Hill: Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure Part 2
- He replaced her again breadthwise on the couch, unable to sit up, with her thighs open, between which I could observe a kind of white liquid, like froth, hanging about the outward lips of that recently opened wound, which now glowed with a deeper red.
- (figuratively) unimportant events or actions; drivel
- Thousands of African children die each day: why do the newspapers continue to discuss unnecessary showbiz froth?
Translations [edit]
foam
unimportant events of actions
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Verb [edit]
froth (third-person singular simple present froths, present participle frothing, simple past and past participle frothed)
- (transitive) To create froth.
- I like to froth my coffee for ten seconds exactly, no more, no less.
- (intransitive) To bubble.
Translations [edit]
To create froth
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To bubble
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