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froth 音標拼音: [fr'ɔθ] n. 泡,泡沫,瑣物
vt. 使生泡沫
vi. 發泡,吹泡 泡,泡沫,瑣物使生泡沫發泡,吹泡 froth n 1: a mass of small bubbles formed in or on a liquid; " the beer had a thick head of foam" [ synonym: { foam}, { froth}] v 1: become bubbly or frothy or foaming; " The boiling soup was frothing"; " The river was foaming"; " Sparkling water" [ synonym: { foam}, { froth}, { fizz}, { effervesce}, { sparkle}, { form bubbles}] 2: make froth or foam and become bubbly; " The river foamed" [ synonym: { froth}, { spume}, { suds}] 3: exude or expel foam; " the angry man was frothing at the mouth" Froth \ Froth\, v. t. [ imp. & p. p. { Frothed}; p. pr. & vb. n.. { Frothing}.] 1. To cause to foam. [ 1913 Webster] 2. To spit, vent, or eject, as froth. [ 1913 Webster] He . . . froths treason at his mouth. -- Dryden. [ 1913 Webster] Is your spleen frothed out, or have ye more? -- Tennyson. [ 1913 Webster] 3. To cover with froth; as, a horse froths his chain. [ 1913 Webster]
Froth \ Froth\, v. i. To throw up or out spume, foam, or bubbles; to foam; as beer froths; a horse froths. [ 1913 Webster]
Froth \ Froth\, n. [ OE. frothe, Icel. fro[ eth] a; akin to Dan. fraade, Sw. fradga, AS. [= a] freo[ eth] an to froth.] [ 1913 Webster] 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. [ 1913 Webster] 2. Any empty, senseless show of wit or eloquence; rhetoric without thought. -- Johnson. [ 1913 Webster] It was a long speech, but all froth. -- L' Estrange. [ 1913 Webster] 3. Light, unsubstantial matter. -- Tusser. [ 1913 Webster] { 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. [ 1913 Webster] 132 Moby Thesaurus words for " froth": aerate, air, alluvion, alluvium, ash, babble, beat, breakers, bric- a- brac, bubble, bubbles, chaff, chicken feed, chickenshit, chip, cinder, clinker, cobweb, collar, cork, cream, deposition, deposits, details, diluvium, down, draff, dregs, dribble, drivel, drool, dross, dust, effervesce, ember, ether, expectoration, fairy, feather, feces, fizz, flippancy, flue, fluff, foam, frivolity, fuzz, gab, gas, gibberish, gimcrackery, gossamer, grounds, head, hot air, knickknackery, lather, lees, levity, lightness, loess, mantle, meringue, minutiae, moraine, mote, mousse, mouth- watering, nonsense, offscum, peanuts, piffle, plash, precipitate, precipitation, ptyalism, puff, rubbish, saliva, salivate, salivation, scoria, scud, scum, sea foam, sediment, settlings, shower, sialagogue, silt, sinter, slabber, slag, slaver, slobber, slosh, small beer, small change, smut, soapsuds, soot, souffle, sparge, spatter, spindrift, spit, spittle, splash, splatter, sponge, spoondrift, spray, sprinkle, spume, sputum, stinging, straw, sublimate, sud, suds, surf, swash, thistledown, trash, trifles, trivia, trumpery, twaddle, whip, whisk, white water, yeast
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