Thesaurus: froth

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1. n. 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. n. Any empty, senseless show of wit or eloquence; rhetoric without thought.
3. n. Light, unsubstantial matter.
4. v. t. To cause to foam.
5. v. t. To spit, vent, or eject, as froth.
6. v. t. To cover with froth; as, a horse froths his chain.
7. v. i. To throw up or out spume, foam, or bubbles; to foam; as beer froths; a horse froths.
8. n. a mass of small bubbles formed in or on a liquid
9. v. become bubbly or frothy or foaming
10. v. make froth or foam and become bubbly
11. v. exude or expel foam
12. 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 insect (Zoöl.), the cuckoo spit or frog hopper; -- called also froth spit, froth worm, and froth fly. -- Froth spit. See Cuckoo spit, under Cuckoo. 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. To throw up or out spume, foam, or bubbles; to foam; as beer froths; a horse froths.