froth /ˈfrɔθ/
泡,泡沫,瑣物(vt.)使生泡沫(vi.)發泡,吹泡
froth /ˈfrɔθ, ˈfrɔð/ 及物動詞
Froth n.
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.
It was a long speech, but all froth. --L'Estrange.
3. Light, unsubstantial matter.
Froth insect Zool., the cuckoo spit or frog hopper; -- called also froth spit, froth worm, and froth fly.
Froth spit. See Cuckoo spit, under Cuckoo.
Froth, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Frothed p. pr. & vb. n.. Frothing.]
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, v. i. To throw up or out spume, foam, or bubbles; to foam; as beer froths; a horse froths.
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froth
n : a mass of small bubbles formed in or on a liquid [syn: foam]
v 1: form bubbles; "The boiling soup was frothing"; "The river
was foaming"; "Sparkling water" [syn: foam, fizz, effervesce,
sparkle]
2: make froth or foam and become bubbly; "The river foamed"
[syn: spume, suds]