froth

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim Foam.

   “Froth is a very important feature of many types of coffee.”

2. isim 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?”

3. isim The idle rich.

   “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.”

4. isim Highly speculative investment.

   “Efforts of this kind, spurred on to fever heat by tax incentives can only generate inflationary froth - not real hard investment.”

5. fiil To create froth in (a liquid).

   “I like to froth my coffee for ten seconds exactly.”

6. fiil (of a liquid) To bubble.

   “Colder and louder blew the wind, A gale from the Northeast, The snow fell hissing in the brine, And the billows frothed like yeast.”

7. fiil To spit, vent, or eject, as froth.

   “The Mufti reddens; mark that holy cheek. He frets within, froths treason at his mouth, And churns it thro’ his teeth […]”

8. fiil (literally) To spew saliva as froth; (figuratively) to rage, vent one's anger.

   “The clumsy suckling struck out with her still soft claws, opened her frothing mouth until her milk teeth shone.”

9. fiil To cover with froth.

   “A horse froths his chain.”