froth
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: business
Etymology: From Middle English froth, frooth, froþ, likely a borrowing from Old Norse froða, from Proto-Germanic *fruþǭ; Old English āfrēoþan (“to foam, froth”) is from same Germanic root. Verb attested from late 14th century. Compare Swedish fradga.
Inflected forms:
form: froths
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: froths
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: frothing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: frothed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: frothed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: Foam.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Froth is a very important feature of many types of coffee.
He replaced her again breadthwise on the couch, unable to sit up, with her thighs open, between which I could observe a kind of white liquid, like froth, hanging about the outward lips of that recently opened wound, which now glowed with a deeper red.
Froth or scum at the paper machine consists largely of clay, rosin, and starch.
Shortly after we started, while still off the lower end of the island, we sighted a steep point on the coast where the sea was in a great state of turmoil, white with soapy froth.
gloss: Unimportant or insubstantial talk, events, or actions; drivel.
pos: noun
tags: countable
figuratively
uncountable
examples: Thousands of African children die each day: why do the newspapers continue to discuss unnecessary showbiz froth?
The discussion at the conference was mostly froth and posturing.
But is it possible for those who speak of God promiscuously and at random, is it possible that they should utter his Name with reverence, when all the rest of the Discourse is nothing but Froth and Levity?
They are equally useless and equally ridiculous, but the coquet is the most pernicious: his mind is a vacuum, and hers a plenum; froth itself is too ponderous for the one, and nothing but froth is crammed into the other.
The want of a good book is not felt till a good book is published—then all the world is dying to read it; but if the public, looking for good books, finds nothing but froth, froth, trash, trash, flummery, and mummery—things that have been said a thousand times before said a thousand times worse than ever—thoughts from those who think not, and who cannot think what thinking is—tales from those who have not heads—observations from those who observe not,—it grows disgusted, and rejects reading altogether.
The efficiency goal forces management to consider the real business over many years and not just the froth business that lasts a few years.
Their new standards, their environmental regulations, their laws, their estimates, their rates, their interest, their conclustions, their judicial appeals, their reminders and their claims, their hypocritical legal decisions to save a planet that had already been bled dry – froth, froth, nothing but froth.
gloss: The idle rich.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: That it offers the best imaginable field for the economical employment of the least useful of our population, viz. "the froth and the dregs,” those of both extremes of the social scale who prefer adventure, excitement, action, idleness if you will, to steady plodding business ways.
I do not think that there were in the boxes or the lower part of the house a score of persons who were not identified, in one way or another, with this froth of New York society.
Voltaire says that the population of England is like her ale: at the top there is nothing but froth; at the bottom there is nothing but dregs; but between these extremes all is excellent.
So, as we said, he paints the froth of society; and very gay froth it is, and very pretty bubbles he can make of it; but this is not reconciling classes, or giving a philosophic representation in fection of the great organic being we call the English nation; and so far as My Novel pretends to be anything more than a well-wrought story, constructed out of the old Bulwer-Lytton materials, the pretence is fabuous and the performance does not answer to it.
gloss: Highly speculative investment.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Efforts of this kind, spurred on to fever heat by tax incentives can only generate inflationary froth - not real hard investment.
In effect Friedman and Scwartz are not blaming the Fed for creating asset market inflation (and as we have seen, this concept should include the empowerment of irrational forces across asset markets including the giant carry trades) by its polices through 1927 and earlier; but they are admitting that there could have been some degree of US stock market "froth" in 1928 onwards (into 1929( (in any case, Friedman and Scwartz do not explicitly refer to the concept of asset price inflation).
There are very clearly signs of late-cycle froth in financial markets, everything from equities, to corporate credit, and real estate, especially in the US and, as a result, the risk of an overdue correction rises by the day.
Froth is what agitates and powers the market, and there are six catalysts that have accelerated market froth, as shown in figure I.2.
gloss: To create froth in (a liquid).
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: I like to froth my coffee for ten seconds exactly.
One lacquey carried the chocolate-pot into the sacred presence; a second, milled and frothed the chocolate with the little instrument he bore for that function; a third, presented the favoured napkin; a fourth (he of the two gold watches), poured the chocolate out.
These sources do not, however, state why the drink is called lambswool. The name comes from the way the apples are roasted until they split open, and their pulp froths over the skin; this is used to float on top of the bowl of drink.
gloss: (of a liquid) To bubble.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: Colder and louder blew the wind,
A gale from the Northeast,
The snow fell hissing in the brine,
And the billows frothed like yeast.
English beer, along with European brews, is already the subject of an EEC investigation to determine whether additives like stabilizers (used to prevent frothing during shipment) should be allowed.
gloss: To spit, vent, or eject, as froth.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: The Mufti reddens; mark that holy cheek.
He frets within, froths treason at his mouth,
And churns it thro’ his teeth […]
[…] is your spleen frothed out, or have ye more?
gloss: (literally) To spew saliva as froth; (figuratively) to rage, vent one's anger.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: The clumsy suckling struck out with her still soft claws,
opened her frothing mouth until her milk teeth shone.
As doctors tried in vain to save April's right eye, news stories frothed at her assailant. He was “fiendish” (the Examiner), “sadistic” (the News-Call Bulletin), “probably a sexual psychopath” (the Chronicle).
gloss: To cover with froth.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: A horse froths his chain.
Derived words: afroth
frother
frothery
froth flotation
froth fly
froth-hopper
froth insect
frothless
froth pack
frothsome
froth spit
froth worm
frothy
froth at the gash
froth at the mouth
froth up
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