froth
FoamFoam.
» Beat the whites of 3 eggs to a stiff froth.
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4 senses(countable, uncountable)Foam.
Froth is a very important feature of many types of coffee.
Schaum
пе́наpéna
пінаpina
(countable, figuratively, uncountable)Unimportant or insubstantial talk, events, or actions; drivel.
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.
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(countable, uncountable)The idle rich.
(countable, uncountable)Highly speculative investment.
- a mass of small bubbles formed in or on a liquid
Examples
3 sentencesBeat the whites of 3 eggs to a stiff froth.
A drop, falling into water, makes a bubble; many bubbles make froth.
Ziri skimmed the froth off.
Translations
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Origin
From Middle English froth, frooth, froþ, likely a borrowing from Old Norse froða, from ProFrom 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.
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Forms
plural: frothsSynonyms
1 synonyms- a mass of small bubbles formed in or on a liquid:foam
Word family
9 related wordsLessons for this word
1 lessons- A1Countable and uncountable nouns — Because it can be uncountable