foam, froth
(noun) a mass of small bubbles formed in or on a liquid; “the beer had a thick head of foam”
froth
(verb) exude or expel foam; “the angry man was frothing at the mouth”
froth, spume, suds
(verb) make froth or foam and become bubbly; “The river foamed”
foam, froth, fizz, effervesce, sparkle, form bubbles
(verb) become bubbly or frothy or foaming; “The boiling soup was frothing”; “The river was foaming”; “sparkling water”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
froth (countable and uncountable, plural froths)
foam
(figuratively) unimportant events or actions; drivel
• L'Estrange
froth (third-person singular simple present froths, present participle frothing, simple past and past participle frothed)
(transitive) To create froth in (a liquid).
(intransitive) (of a liquid) To bubble.
(transitive) To spit, vent, or eject, as froth.
(intransitive) (literally) To spew saliva as froth; (figuratively) to rage, vent one's anger.
(transitive) To cover with froth.
• Forth, forth, forth-
Source: Wiktionary
Froth, n. Etym: [OE. frothe, Icel. frotha; akin to Dan. fraade, Sw. fradga, AS. afreothan to froth.]
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.
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.
Definition: To throw up or out spume, foam, or bubbles; to foam; as beer froths; a horse froths.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
5 May 2025
(adjective) not developed, improved, exploited or used; “vast unexploited (or undeveloped) natural resources”; “taxes on undeveloped lots are low”
The earliest credible evidence of coffee-drinking as the modern beverage appeared in modern-day Yemen. In the middle of the 15th century in Sufi shrines where coffee seeds were first roasted and brewed for drinking. The Yemenis procured the coffee beans from the Ethiopian Highlands.
