Definition of Froth

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Definition of Froth

Froth

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

Any empty, senseless show of wit or eloquence; rhetoric without thought.

Light, unsubstantial matter.

To cause to foam.

To spit, vent, or eject, as froth.

To cover with froth; as, a horse froths his chain.

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

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Froth Quotations

Froth at the top, dregs at bottom, but the middle excellent.
Voltaire

You can't live on amusement. It is the froth on water - an inch deep and then the mud.
George MacDonald

There's a lot of strength in the U.S., but there's a lot of froth also. The froth will blow off. We're going to have to face up to some realities that we're not fully facing up to right now.
Jeffrey Sachs

Language is froth on the surface of thought.
John McCarthy

Froth Translations

froth in Afrikaans is skuim, roer
froth in Danish is skum
froth in Dutch is doorroeren, omroeren, roeren
froth in Finnish is vaahto
froth in German is Schaum
froth in Italian is schiuma
froth in Portuguese is espuma
froth in Spanish is espuma
froth in Swedish is skumma, fradga, skum

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